Accountability

Integration: The Panacea for Low Achievement in Our Schools?

Integration. The idea brought well deserved cheers with Brown vs Board of Education. Many likely assumed that 60+ years later, deeply segregated schools would...

Talent, Systems, and Accountability or Excuses: Educating the Black Child

“I am not accountable for the violence, drugs, pregnancy…in my school.” I wasn’t surprised by this final retort. It was tweeted to me by a...

The War Waged Within (our Schools) Against Our Black Boys

“An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.” –Lerone Bennett, Jr. There is a war going on. When war...

Pennsylvania, Pass HB 530! Dont Limit High Quality Options for Our Students

For many years, the School District of Philadelphia, anti-charter groups, and even high performing charter schools, demanded that charters be held accountable for student...

Taking Advantage of Young Scholars

"With great power, comes great responsibility." The conditions of our schools clearly communicate to us that we need authentic vanguards for our communities. Although many...

The Lures of the Privileged

I wanted to weigh in on two recent articles about testing. As a current charter school principal, former Philadelphia School District teacher and principal,...

Urban School Funding: An Era of Separate and Still Unequal

What is one to surmise about today’s educational systems, specifically our nation’s public urban school districts in relation to whether or not they are...

Opting Out Co-Opts Our Fight for Equity and Accountability

The other day I rode by a mansion in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania—one of the wealthiest districts in the state, if not the country—and I...

Randi, We Don’t Need a Photo-Op, We Need Better Schools

Recently, Philadelphia Superintendent William R. Hite announced that North Philadelphia school E.W. Rhodes Elementary would be among four schools undergoing a district-run turnaround plan—requiring...

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