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Archive - September 2016

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Integration: The Panacea for Low Achievement in Our Schools?

September 30, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
7 min read
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Integration. The idea brought well deserved cheers with Brown vs Board of Education. Many likely assumed that 60+ years later, deeply segregated schools would only serve as a relic of the past and a sharp pivot in the road for...

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Teachers Are Heroes and We Need More Black Ones

September 24, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
6 min read
2 Comments

Christopher Emdin, author of For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… And the Rest of Y’All Too. , recently wrote an article that brought up a lot of great points. He is concerned that people are using the lack of...

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Happy Anniversary, Mastery Charter Schools!

September 21, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
7 min read
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Happy Anniversary, Mastery Charter Schools. Congratulations! To celebrate our 15th anniversary, we held a banquet and fundraiser to recognize  our service of and partnership with Philly kids, families, and communities...

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An Open Letter From a Principal to the Police

September 15, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
6 min read
3 Comments

Dear Police Officers, In case you haven’t taken the time to notice, our students are amazing. Not a little amazing either. Very amazing. They are awesome! I wanted to tell you that, but I am also writing out of some deep and...

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Will PA’s Supreme Court Justices Be Just?

September 14, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
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A group of citizens and child advocates brought a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Legislature and the Governor.  Both want the Supreme Court to ignore the current and stubborn inequity in our schools so they can continue to...

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Do We Have the Courage to Diversify?

September 11, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
6 min read
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“What messages do students receive about the authority of knowledge and power when every teacher they have ever had is a white woman?”  -Margarita Bianco, 2013 And, understanding power and imbalance, racism and...

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There’s a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Liza

September 8, 2016
by Soledad Alfaro
6 min read
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I love the beginning of the school year. For those of us who spend most of our time with other adults – wrestling with data, designing programs and curricula, planning, planning and planning; when the students come back, it...

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The Total Sum of Our Childrens’ School Experiences

September 3, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
12 Comments

“We are the total sum of our experiences.” This quote is attributed to a few and experienced by all. I had three very distinct and radically different school experiences growing up. The collection of these experiences...

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Our School Funding System is Racist, But Don’t Call Us Racists

September 1, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
5 min read
8 Comments

In the past, we were told were were 3/5th of a human being. Today, our students are told their education is worth a fraction of the cost of white students’ education. Our school has over one million dollars less to educate...

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