At the NAME conference today
The National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) has been holding their 21st annual international conference here in Chicago this week. NAME’s mission is toadvance and advocate for equity and social justice through multicultural education.
I’ll be on a panel this afternoon with friend and true education reformer Bill Ayers and a bunch of other people, all who have contributed to a (we hope) soon-to-be-published book called “Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush of Public Education.”
The book will offer stories of people and groups that have stood up to the recent attacks on public education to offer hope and some ideas for resistance.
In my allotted 5 minutes, I’m going to run through a few highlights of PURE’s actions, from our formation as an
