This is a guest post by Austin Gibson. Austin is a junior at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). I graduated from a west Philadelphia high school that’s a turnaround neighborhood charter school that used to be the...
Category - School Choice
I have many friends who are staunchly “anti-choice” when it comes to educating Black children. They are awesome people, folks you would trust with your children or money, but I find their hypocrisy alarming. They can be...
This is a guest post from Tre Johnson, deputy director for JerseyCAN and a leadership member of The Fellowship–Black Male Educators for Social Justice. It originally appeared on the JerseyCAN blog and was reproduced here with...
At times, Black people, like any group battered and oppressed by the state, may celebrate any perception of forward motion. Folks scour social media pages to see who has what appointment, what political power is being amassed...
As an early-career teacher, there were people who made some real contributions to my classroom’s culture and instruction. Obviously, some were teacher coaches and mentors who I have written about previously. Others, were...
Like hundreds of thousands of Black families, my paternal grandmother and several of her relatives participated in the Great Migration, one of the most dramatic population shifts in American history. Although some Blacks left the...
For some reason, Carol Burris believes she speaks for Black families. I give her credit as a lifelong and respected educator. We served on a panel together and even exchanged friendly emails. But, I remain concerned about how...
National School Choice Week is an independent public awareness effort spotlighting effective education options for children, including traditional public schools, public charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, online...
I often wonder what it will take for Black children in our communities to attend high-performing schools. According to many anti-school choice opponents, the only choices that Black, Brown, and poor families should have a right...
On Saturday, America’s oldest civil rights organization made its opposition to charter schools and Black families official. What the NAACP should have done, like their local chapter leader, Rodney Muhammad did, was spend time...