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When “Progressive” White People Perfect Progressive Racism And Call It “Allyship”

June 16, 2020
by Citizen Stewart
3 min read
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Good people, it looks like the smoke rising from Minneapolis has inspired so many “allies” to ask: “what can we do to help.” And, as a matter of solidarity, folks have focused intently on defunding or reforming or lightly...

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Please Accept My Resignation From The ‘Ed Reform’ Movement

April 12, 2020
by Citizen Stewart
7 min read
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To all my disrupter friends, please accept this letter as my resignation from the so-called “education reform movement.”For more than 20 years I’ve been lost in the reform forest, but no more. For too long I’ve relied on...

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We Fight for Those Who Were Liberated, But Never Freed

July 23, 2019
by Citizen Stewart
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In the latest 8 Black Hands Podcast, the crew, minus Citizen Stewart, is joined by civil rights activist and educational freedom fighter, Dr. Howard Fuller. The conversation touches on desegregation, busing and integration...

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Don’t Act Like You “Care” About School Reform, But Ignore the Life and Death Issues Black People in America Face

February 10, 2019
by Citizen Stewart
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In recent months, notable people within school reform circles have locked horns over a trifling question: Does the inclusion of social justice activists, people derided as “warriors,” in education reform threaten the...

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When It Comes to Schools, Do Black Leaders Walk It Like They Talk It?

January 26, 2019
by Citizen Stewart
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When it comes to school choice we should follow what our leaders do more than what they say. This past week represented both Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s day of celebration, and the beginning of...

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DON’T STAND IN THE WAY OF 8 MILLION BLACK CHILDREN GETTING AN EDUCATION

January 24, 2019
by Citizen Stewart
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We Launched a new podcast Deep in the heart of public school education wars rage on, and few warriors come to fight for the people. Yet, there is one small band of freedom fighters  determined to bring sanity to the...

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I Didn’t Believe In Suspensions. Then My Daughter Was Punched In the Face.

December 14, 2018
by Citizen Stewart
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Ask me what I think about school discipline and I will give you an answer born out of my time steeped in education tea. A decade ago I campaigned for school board saying I thought children should have safe, orderly, and rigorous...

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

November 28, 2018
by Citizen Stewart
8 min read
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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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Liberating Black Kids From Broken Schools — By Any Means Necessary

November 20, 2018
by Citizen Stewart
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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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Black Organizations and Philanthropists Are Secretly Meeting to Create a Plan for Radically Changing Public Schools

October 21, 2018
by Citizen Stewart
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Theodore Roosevelt famously said: “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” According to a message I just received, some of our most prominent black leaders are about to put that saying into action on behalf...

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