Where Are You From? A Guest Post by Malaya Velasquez Saldana
“Whereare you from?” the ubiquitous question posed to me since I learned to formulate my first English sentence, has overtime accrued the weight of a multitude of implied questions, and exclamations. Now by 22 years old the weight of that question is so heavy with implications, and assumptive self-erasing experiences I hear it and laugh. The kind of laugh that your mother makes when you lie to her
9-2-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: In the US " Improving Teacher Quality" really means Humiliating and Firing Veteran Teachers
With A Brooklyn Accent: In the US " Improving Teacher Quality" really means Humiliating and Firing Veteran TeachersAll over the nation, the imperative to "improve teacher quality" has morphed into a campaign to marginalize, humiliate and force out veteran teachers. Not only has this caused tremendous distress to the individuals thus targeted, it has deprived our public schools