Wednesday, May 21, 2014

5-21-14 @ The Chalk Face

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The Return to Separate but Equal 60 Years Post Brown
Originally published by emPower Magazine on Wednesday May 22, 2014.  As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling Brown vs. Board of Education, which put an end to segregation of public schools, many have argued that the goals of that case have not been met as many black and brown students […]

America’s Billionaire-to-National-Debt Contradiction
In 1983, the Reagan Administration published the now-infamous report, A Nation at Risk, a report that declares the American education experience is “eroding” due to “a tide of mediocrity.” Here are the opening sentences of that report: Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by […]


Why Did Cory Booker and Mark Zuckerberg Ignore Newark’s Families?

Dale Russakoff’s New Yorker profile “Schooled” is a wonderful account of Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million investment in Newark school reform, and how and why it failed. It implicitly asks what did the founder of Facebook, and other elites, not know about school improvement and if they will develop an interest in why they did not […]


5-20-14 @ The Chalk Face
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