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The Conversation: Racial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned it
Racial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned it
MAY 15
My Speech to the Graduates: Don’t Listen to Graduation Speakers
No institution has invited me to be the speaker at graduation, and none is ever likely to do so. But I feel compelled to offer this speech to gradates. So in the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut—great American novelist who knew how to give a graduation speech—I’ll start by telling you exactly what I want you to learn from this speech: Don’t listen to graduation speakers. Now that I have the main point out
MAY 11
On Foma and Mendacity: Letting the Cat Out of the Bag
Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof may seem at first blush to share only the use of “cat” in their titles, but both works are masterful examinations of something central to the human condition: the lie. But Vonnegut’s foma at the heart of Bokononism and Big Daddy’s railing against mendacity present contrasting dramatizations of “lying and liars,” as Brick
The Unbearable Whiteness of Liberal Media
Flickr/Sean Winter By Gabriel Arana | Originally Published at The American Prospect. May 12, 2014 This article has been corrected. On the staff of The American Prospect, I’m the only member of an ethnic minority. That’s not because I bring all the variety the magazine needs, or […]
Michelle Obama Cites View of Growing Segregation
Michelle Obama attended the “Senior Recognition Day” event with high school students in Topeka, Kan., on Friday. | Credit Sait Serkan Gurbuz/Reuters By Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Originally Published at The New York times. May 16, 2014 TOPEKA, Kan. — Sixty years after the Supreme Court outlawed […]
60 Years After Brown v. Board of Ed, Pockets of Segregation Remain in Md. Schools
Roland ParkFourth-graders do classwork in their homeroom at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore. The school is the most racially diverse school in the most segregated school district in the state. (Kim Hairston, Baltimore Sun /May 7, 2014) By Liz Bowie and Erica L. Green | Originally […]
MAY 15
Hedge Fund Titans Hum a Happy Tune, Public Education Is For Sale
The families of kindergarten teachers make less in a year than the average top 25 hedge fund manager makes in 15 minutes. Photograph; Blanton Elementary School kindergarten teacher Amy Collins, left with her class on Monday, August 20, 2012 in Lealman, Florida. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, […]
Civil Rights Complaint Alleges Unequal Treatment for New Orleans’ Black Public School Students
Photograph; M.K. Nguyen ends the protest with a Unity Chant as groups protest on the median in front of Sarah T. Reed High School to protest school closure, Monday, December 9, 2013. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)By Danielle Dreilinger | Originally Published atThe Times-Picayune. […]
Halt Race-Based Education Policy Petition Delivered
Photograph; The petition was delivered five days before the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation. You Signed. Sealed. And Southern Poverty Law Delivered the Petition Demanding Florida Governor End State-Sponsored Discrimination Against Minority Students. […]
‘Under Emanuel, Principals Have No Voice’
Pictured from left to right: Casey, Andrew, Tami Sirkin and Principal LaRaviere By Troy A. LaRaviere, Principal | Originally Published at The Chicago Sun Times. Letter to the Editor May 9, 2014 6:46 PM I am the son of a black father from the South Side and […]
MAY 14
MAY 13
New Orleans Teachers and Students Wrestle With Racial Tension
Students at a fundraiser for Liberation Academy in New Orleans March 14, 2014. Some of the students who led protests over the district’s Collegiate Academy charter schools withdrew from those schools and enrolled in Liberation Academy, founded by parents and local activists. By Jordan Flaherty| Originally Published […]