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 being adequately funded? Dating as far back to America’s seminal K-12...
Many of our greatest community activists, freedom fighters, and nation builders spoke to us about the sanctity of a rigorous education and how it must be used to uplift, embolden, and liberate. Douglass, Malcolm, Martin, Newton...
Dear President Obama, In a recent New Yorker blog post, Three Places Obama Could Teach, Cinque Henderson had several suggestions about what you might be interested in doing after your historic time as POTUS (President of the...
Our situation as a people is too critical and precarious to afford us the luxury of members who have the opportunity to serve, but feel no need to do so. -Asa Hilliard Had you asked me 25 years ago—and someone did—if...
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 noticed a sign encouraging people to “opt out” of our state’s annual standardized...
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 staff to reapply for their...
