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Guilty Pleasures: Keeping It Real On Education Podcasts

October 6, 2020
by Raymond Ankrum
3 min read
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Guilty Pleasure. One of my new found guilty pleasures is creating content on the 8 Black Hands Podcast @8blackhand1 (on twitter). Each of us has our strengths, and we all push each other to explore areas that...

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When “Progressive” White People Perfect Progressive Racism And Call It “Allyship”

June 16, 2020
by Citizen Stewart
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Good people, it looks like the smoke rising from Minneapolis has inspired so many “allies” to ask: “what can we do to help.” And, as a matter of solidarity, folks have focused intently on defunding or reforming or lightly...

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Please Accept My Resignation From The ‘Ed Reform’ Movement

April 12, 2020
by Citizen Stewart
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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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When It Comes to Schools, Do Black Leaders Walk It Like They Talk It?

January 26, 2019
by Citizen Stewart
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When it comes to school choice we should follow what our leaders do more than what they say. This past week represented both Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s day of celebration, and the beginning of...

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DON’T STAND IN THE WAY OF 8 MILLION BLACK CHILDREN GETTING AN EDUCATION

January 24, 2019
by Citizen Stewart
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We Launched a new podcast Deep in the heart of public school education wars rage on, and few warriors come to fight for the people. Yet, there is one small band of freedom fighters  determined to bring sanity to the...

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It’s Not Standardized Tests That Educators Hate, It’s Accountability

July 31, 2018
by Citizen Stewart
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Education Week likes to frustrate me in the morning. Reading their article today about the retreat of the anti-testing suburban opt-out movement, I should have been happy, but a few word-bytes in it are restating flimsy...

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