As a principal, and as a former teacher who barely missed a day of school over my teaching career, I can tell you that teacher absences can wreak havoc on a school community. Last year, Thomas Fordham published a study that...
During my last trips to visit family in Rwanda and the Congo, I was able to connect with countless people who are working on reconciliation from a war that ravaged the area, and improving education for those who were unable to...
While there is a growing number of people who compare today’s America with murderous, racist, and xenophobic actions of “yesteryear,” no, we are not living through another Holocaust – Native American, African or...
In the spring of 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, reminded the world that, Blacks were not and could never become citizens of the United States. Taney used the United States Constitution as the basis for his evil assertion...
Recently, a group of diverse leaders across the education spectrum came together to advocate for justice (again). An open letter, with 70 signers ranging from CMOs, Commissioners, and Superintendents to prominent non-profits...
On June 19, 1865, two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing (only) some of the enslaved, Union Major General Gordon Granger, rode into Galveston, Texas and announced: The people of Texas are informed...
If you have ever done a privilege walk, you know it can be a very moving, and sometimes emotional, visual of how some of us have been given opportunities and head starts and others of us have not. In the video above, the...
Imagine a doctor knowing vital, life-saving information about your health, but not sharing it with you. It would be not only unacceptable, it would be grounds for dismissal. Choosing not to act, when the data shows that the...
My friends, Ismael and Ashley Jimenez, describe an haunting encounter they had while #ParentingWhileBlack at a movie theater a few days ago. The police were called on them in order to harass and intimidate them. Meanwhile, what...
Mastery Charter School – Shoemaker Campus. The Class of 2018. Our 8th graduating class at our turnaround charter school. While Shoemaker used to be second most violent school in Philadelphia, and likely Pennsylvania, today...
