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Educators, If You Aren’t Consistently Asking ‘How Are The Children?’, You’re Asking The Wrong Questions.

December 21, 2020
by Dr. Robert Harvey
6 min read
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On the sun-glazed African continent, the most storied warrior people, incomparably formidable and sagacious in war, is the Maasai. It is perhaps unexpected, then, to learn the traditional greeting that passed between Maasai...

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Please Accept My Resignation From The ‘Ed Reform’ Movement

April 12, 2020
by Citizen Stewart
7 min read
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To all my disrupter friends, please accept this letter as my resignation from the so-called “education reform movement.”For more than 20 years I’ve been lost in the reform forest, but no more. For too long I’ve relied on...

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Dr. Love & the 8 Black Hands

October 1, 2019
by Sharif El-Mekki
1 min read
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In the current, at times, toxic educational debates, cancel culture is rampant. But, there is room, space, and precedence for cordial debates, fierce and persistent differences in outlooks and strategies, yet solidarity in the...

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Independence Has Always Been a Day Late and a Dollar Short for Black People, But Schools Can Change That…If They Wanted To.

July 5, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
5 min read
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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...

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The Abolitionists We Need

May 27, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Saying the enslaved were happy is akin to saying Black communities are happy sending their children to persistently failing schools. Just as we needed an abolitionist movement then, we need one now-with the right mindset. I...

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