Accountability

What Teachers Can Do To Help Black Boys Overcome Our Racist Society

A recent study, reported on in the New York Times under the headline “Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys,” and facilitated...

I’ve Taught in a School With Zero Accountability, It’s Terrible

By last December, the fall of my ninth year of teaching high school, I had been observed by teacher coaches, visitors from educational non-profit...

An Interview with a 27-Year-Old Black Father: Trying to Avoid the School to Prison Pipeline

In the article Is the Road to Special Education (for Black Boys) Paved with the White Educator’s Paperwork?, we meet Randy for the first time. Some...

How It Feels When You Find Out There Is a Gun in Your School

My experience with a firearm in a school was in 2003. It was my first year as principal at Shaw Middle School in Southwest Philadelphia....

Dear Educators…Can We Talk?

Why do so many of you hate children? Maybe hate is a strong word. Shall I say really dislike? I ask myself this question...

Philly’s New School Board: We Should Be Careful What We Wish For

We have waited a long time for local control of Philly schools, and the decision to abolish the School Reform Commission was a great...

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Speaks, But Is Anyone Listening?

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recently issued a sweeping 158-page report demonstrating how K-12 funding structures negatively impact opportunities for low-income students and...

When’s the Last Time You’ve Heard a Politician Take Full Responsibility for the Education of Black and Brown Children in Philly

For too long, we’ve pointed fingers at each other…again and again, we’ve told the people of Philadelphia that the state of their schools are...

Why Aren’t They Funding Our Schools? They Don’t Think We Can Learn.

Last week we had one of three family orientations to launch the 2017-18 school year. One of the messages I shared with families was...
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