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Ten Things White People Can Do About Ferguson Besides Tweet
Ten Things White People Can Do About Ferguson Besides Tweet By Kate Harding | Originally Published at Dame Magazine. August 14, 2014 They’re happening all around the country tonight, including at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, around 7 p.m. Eastern. In 2012, more than 300 black […]
What White People Can Do About the Killing of Black Men in America
By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Originally Published at Huffington Post. August 13, 2014 4:18 PM EDT Updated: August 14, 2014 9:59 AM EDT ‘Can we switch for just one day?’ my friend Sean jokingly asked me as we were working out at the gym. ‘No, way’ I […]
Another Reason Why Segregated Education Is Bad For Young Students
By Rebecca Klein Huffington Post. July 30, 2014 Updated: 6:59 PM EDT A new study offers more evidence that segregated schooling is bad for students. The study, from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, used previously compiled data from the Department of Education to track how […]
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Michael Brown and The Education of Our Black Men
Photograph; Michael Brown. Hershel Johnson, a friend of Brown’s since middle school remembers. “He said he wasn’t going to end up like some people on the streets. He was going to get an education. He was going to make his life a whole a lot better.” By […]
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“Black and White Twins” and the Social Construction of Race
By Lisa Wade, PhD | Originally Published at Society Pages. August 1, 2014, at 09:00 AM Flashback Friday. This remarkable newspaper article illustrates how skin color (which is real) gets translated into categorical racial categories (which are not). The children in the images below — Kian and […]
Feds Investigating Claim Of Civil Rights Violations In Schools On Chicago’s South Side
Irene Robinson wraps her arm around her grandchild, who attended Anthony Overton Elementary School in Chicago [2013]. The school is one of 48 now shuttered because of a budget deficit. Many parents have voiced concerns about the closures. Photograph by Michael By Joseph Erbentraut | Originally Published […]
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This Is Why We’re Mad About the Shooting of Mike Brown
Lesley McSpadden, left, is comforted by her husband, Louis Head, after her 18-year-old son, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by police in the middle of the street in Ferguson, Mo., near St. Louis on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. A spokesman with the St. Louis County Police […]
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What Are We Doing To Our Children? #IfTheyGunnedMeDown #MichaelBrown
What are we doing to our children? Why might it be that white teens are free to plan for proms, High School graduation, the anticipation that comes when you go off to college, while our Black babies ponder, “If the cops gun me down, which image would […]
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Florida Retention Policy a Blight on Literacy, Children across US
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. August 6, 2014 The New York Times headline suggests we are finally poised to read a positive story about education: A Summer of Extra Reading and Hope for Fourth Grade. But education reporter Motoko Rich’s […]
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3 Facts that Poverty-Deniers Don’t Want to Hear
By Paul Buchheit | AlterNet. August 3, 2014 Three-quarters of conservative Americans say poor people have it easy. The degree of ignorance about poverty is stunning, even for people far removed from the realities of an average American lifestyle. Both oilman Charles Koch and Nicole Miller CEO […]
Call: Democracy And Decency: What Does Education Have To Do With It?
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS DEMOCRACY AND DECENCY: WHAT DOES EDUCATION HAVE TO DO WITH IT? EDITORS: PAUL R. CARR, P. L. THOMAS, BRAD PORFILIO & JUIE GORLEWSKI PUBLISHER: INFORMATION AGE PUBLISHING Democracy can mean a range of concepts, including freedoms, rights, elections, governments, processes, philosophies and a panoply of abstract and concrete notions that can be mediated by power, positi
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Revisiting Content and Direct Instruction
It is the 1890s, and educators are concerned that students are not receiving the quality education they deserve—especially if those students plan to attend college. What became known as The Report of the Committee of Ten has now been replicated at varying intervals in the U.S. for 120 years: Competing interests declaring what students learn (and how students learn) as inadequate, and then setting
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VAM Remedy Part of Inequity Disease
But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease. Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism” In Reliability and validity of inferences about teachers based on student test scores (ETS, 2013), Edward H. Haertel draws an important conclusion about value-added methods of evaluating teachers built on standardized tests: “Tests ali
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Blacked Out: “you must consider what happens to a life which finds no mirror”
First the air is blue and then it is bluer and then green and then black I am blacking out “Diving into the Wreck,” Adrienne Rich Recently, I have been trying to navigate my own journey toward calling for the next phase in the education reform debate—the primary tension being between my evolving position as it rubs against my sisters and brothers in arms who remain (justifiably) passionate about c
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Preventing Arson Instead of Putting Out Fires
What do the allegory of the river, the science fiction film In Time, and a mainstream examination of living in poverty by an economist and a psychologist reveal for those of us seeking the next phase in our resistance of the education reform agenda in the U.S.? We need to pull back from a thousand individual examples of how political, media, and public claims about education are failing children a
GreenvilleOnline: SC should choose Oklahoma, not Florida
SC should choose Oklahoma, not Florida [1] What do third-grade retention policies based on reading tests and charter schools have in common? First, they have a great deal of public and political support. But, second, the research base on these policies has shown repeatedly that they do more to fail students than to achieve any of the lofty goals advocates claim. South Carolina is a typical example
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“Education as Great Equalizer” Deforming Myth, Not Reality
In the Seinfeld episode “The Hamptons,” viewers watch yet another clash between the essentially soulless main characters as they interact with the very white and privileged “real world” surrounding them in the sitcom. The crux of this episode revolves around one couple having a baby, and then what occurs when reality clashes with civility: Jerry: Is it me or was that the ugliest baby you have ever