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Archive - November 2018

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When Black Male Educators Choose to Act Instead of Wait, Powerful Things Can Happen

November 30, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
7 min read
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In the 1860s, Black Codes, including vagrancy and loitering laws, were established to prevent black people, particularly black men, from coming together. These Black Codes were used to vilify and cement a distinct and racial...

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Angry White Teachers On The Internet (and their Colored Friends)

November 28, 2018
by Citizen Stewart
8 min read
2 Comments

In all my writing about public schools you’ll find a consistent claim that public schools are insufficient to the task of educating black children. That message angers people, especially those working in district public schools...

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  • Equity and Justice
  • School Choice

Liberating Black Kids From Broken Schools — By Any Means Necessary

November 20, 2018
by Citizen Stewart
3 min read
1 Comment

The following piece was written by Derrell Bradford, Dr. Howard Fuller & Chris Stewart. Education reform is at a crossroads in this country. And it seems the issue of parent choice — who should have it, how much of it...

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Teachers Need Emotional Support Too

November 14, 2018
by David November
6 min read
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Increasingly, schools are returning to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in order to better understand how to support students. As anyone who has taken an introductory psychology course knows well, Maslow’s psychological theory...

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No Matter What Anyone Says, the Money Ought to Follow the Kid Regardless of What Kind of Public School They Choose

November 12, 2018
by Zachary Wright
6 min read
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I am punching above my weight. I am no education policy wonk, nor am I a mover or shaker in America’s larger educational conversation. But a recent blog post by the well-known edu-legends Carol Burris and Diane Ravitch on The...

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This Teacher Just Made History by Becoming Connecticut’s First Black Woman Elected to Congress

November 9, 2018
by Kelisa Wing
4 min read
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From the moment I first heard Jahana Hayes speak, I knew that she was special. Riding back from a track meet, I came across her 2016 National Teacher of the Year YouTube video. I was feeling overwhelmed as I was preparing for an...

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The Hate I Get About “The Hate U Give.”

November 5, 2018
by Vivett Dukes
6 min read
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While The Hate U Give is a best-selling book and top-rated film, I’m getting some real pushback from my administration about having my students read the book and see the film in my English Language Arts class, despite its...

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Some Black Folks Don’t Want to End White Supremacy, They Just Want to Better Their Position in It

November 2, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
3 min read
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I was recently in Hartford, Connecticut, at the invitation of Mama Gwen Samuel, an activist who works on behalf and with the community.  I wasn’t prepared for what I was to encounter; callousness of Black bourgeois, disregard...

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