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...
Archive - September 2016
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
“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...
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...