Last year, I wrote a piece titled, 4 Ways We Can Support Muslim Students During Ramadhan and Year-Round. For the next decade or so, the month of Ramadhan will fall during the school year and schools should include awareness and...
Category - Diversity
I recently participated in a Twitter chat, #4percent, with researchers from Research for Action and other educators as a follow up to RFA’s insightful recent report, Patching the Leaky Pipeline: Recruiting and Retaining...
Of my twenty-five plus years working with and on behalf of children, about eight of those years were spent in schools where 99.9 percent of the students were children of color, and 85-90 percent of the teachers were white...
After being shot on a high school football field in Philadelphia, @selmekki began considering teaching. He founded @BMECFellowship, which works to get more black males as teachers in the classroom. #AtlanticEDU...
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 by researchers at Stanford, Harvard, and the Census Bureau, found that...
This interview was originally published in Edutopia for Black History Month. The theme of Black History Month this year is “The Crisis in Black Education.” The scope of the crisis is considerable: Results from the National...
This was written by our good friend, James E. Ford. James is the program director at the Public School Forum of North Carolina. Prior to this, he served as the 2014-15 North Carolina Teacher of the Year. “If we would start...
This Fall, I had the privilege of teaching Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a novel I’ve read and taught time and again, and one that never fails to overwhelm with awe, silence, and turmoil. Towards the middle of the novel, Sethe, a...
His name is Malcolm Xavier Combs. Yet he was allegedly pulled out of class, berated, and told by a school administrator at his school— Christ the King High School in Queens, NY — that he can’t have “Malcolm X” on his...
“Your presence is an act of resistance.” —Vincent Cobb II, CEO of The Fellowship: Black Male Educators for Social Justice In October 2017, The Fellowship: Black Male Educators for Social Justice invited Black male educators...