How ‘Education Reform’ Perpetuates Racial Disparity
Graphic adaptation by AngertAesthetics based on Inside Story/Al Jazeera America By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Educational Opportunity Network. March 26, 2014 America was shocked, shocked, by new data from the U.S. Department of Education last week showing that a child’s education destiny in the nation’s […]
Kiese Laymon, Author of ‘Long Division,’ Speaks Up for Black Boys and Girls
Kiese Laymon at TWF2014 | At the end of the 2014 Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans, Kiese Laymon, author of the 2013 novel ‘Long Division,’ says America seems more interested in disciplining black boys than hearing what those boys might have to say. [See and Hear […]
A Common Core for All of Us
Illustration; Credit Giacomo Bagnara The New York Times. March 22, 2014 I COULDN’T get a cab. A sketchy-looking guy hunkering around the entrance of the Grand Hyatt in San Diego showed me his bicycle. “Climb on, lady,” he said. “I’ll take ya.” I thought it over. “O.K.,” […]
Republican Governors Wrestle with Unpopular Common Core Education Standards
Photograph; Second grade students at Horseshoe Trails Elementary study typing in anticipation of new Common Core standards. Photo by David Jolkovski/Washington Post By Bill Barrow, Associated Press | Originally Published at The Rundown | PBS NewsHour. March 24, 2014 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — More than five years after […]
14 Disturbing Stats About Racial Inequality in American Public Schools
(AP Photo/ Jose F. Moreno) By Steven Hsieh | Originally Published at The Nation. March 21, 2014 Comprehensive data released Friday by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights offers a striking glance at the extent of racial inequality plaguing the nation’s education system. Analysts […]
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Colonizing the Black Natives: Reflections from a former NOLA Charter School Dean of Students
Photograph by Lacy Atkins By Griff519 also known as Ramon | Originally Published at Cloaking Inequality. March 24, 2014 Are some charters’ practices new forms of colonial hegemony? When examining current discipline policies and aligned behavioral norms within charter school spaces, postcolonial theory is useful because of […]