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Teaching Behind the Lines: Fugitive Leadership and the Limits of Professionalism in Education

“Many of us use the idea that ‘I am a professional’ as an excuse to not become humanly concerned or politically concerned with our...

The Crisis Of Cell Phones

Cell phones are a hot topic in education circles. Should they or shouldn’t they be banned in school? I can say that last school year,...

Freedom Teaching During Oppressive Times

In Dr. Jarvis Givens' book Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, he details stories of Black teachers circumventing, what...

For The (School) Culture

An overused (and even annoying) word or phrase I am used to hearing is “the culture.” What is the culture? Really, what is it I...

Counting the Cultural Costs Of Enrolling Our Children In School

For Black parents, there’s a cultural cost associated with placing their child or children in schools where their peers don’t look like them, their...

Dr. Doxey Alphonso Wilkerson, Black Educator Hall of Fame

Every day this month, the Center for Black Educator Development, in partnership with Education Post and Philly’s 7th Ward, will highlight a Black Educator Hall of...

John Henry Stanford, Black Educator Hall of Fame

Every day this month, the Center for Black Educator Development, in partnership with Education Post and Philly’s 7th Ward, will highlight a Black Educator Hall of...

John Wesley Gilbert, Black Educator Hall of Fame

Every day this month, the Center for Black Educator Development, in partnership with Education Post and Philly’s 7th Ward, will highlight a Black Educator Hall of...

Dr. Euphemia Lofton Haynes, Black Educator Hall of Fame

Every day this month, the Center for Black Educator Development, in partnership with Education Post and Philly’s 7th Ward, will highlight a Black Educator Hall of...

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