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If You Believe Education Is For Liberation, Follow The Examples of Liberation Schools

December 9, 2020
by Rann Miller
6 min read
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When it comes to education, I have a well-rounded and unique perspective. I received a Catholic school education, I taught middle and high school history for two charter schools and I am currently a program director for a public...

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Which Side Are you on, yaw? Which side are you on? I’m on the freedom side!

November 9, 2020
by Sharif El-Mekki
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.” It’s hard to disagree when you consider the totality of the Black radical tradition—our struggle today, and the struggles of those who came before...

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An Open Letter to Teachers Who Began Teaching During the American Spring

June 23, 2020
by Sharif El-Mekki
7 min read
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Dear Freedom School Literacy Team 2020, Across the nation, we started the summer of 2020, lighting up the streets with rage. We rage for George Floyd’s senseless strangulation. We rage for Ahmaud Arbery, who was hunted...

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In The Corona Chaos, There’s An Opportunity To Advance The Banner For Educational Justice

May 20, 2020
by Atnre Alleyne
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If you take the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, add the massive Black-white wealth gap, and then mix in America’s ungodly lack of social safety nets; Black families are about to be served a hellacious helping of...

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Dr. Love & the 8 Black Hands

October 1, 2019
by Sharif El-Mekki
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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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Philly, Let’s Get Serious About Diversifying Our Teachers (and Principals)

June 3, 2019
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Districts and schools search incessantly for meaningful, sustainable, and effective school-based interventions — and those efforts often fail. Tons of money has been spent on countless concepts. Professional development on...

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A Letter to My Younger Self: DON’T. GIVE. UP!

March 15, 2019
by Nosakhere Griffin-El
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Hello Nos, it is me, I mean you. Your older self. I know you are mad right now because you will be in the 7th grade for the second time. P.S. you get left down again in 9th grade too. You will struggle with reading all throughout...

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The Black Panther Party and Me

February 12, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
7 min read
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“We want decent education for our people…” When people describe folks’ offspring, many will share, “…the apple doesn’t fall far from its tree.” I have never subscribed to that adage. I tell our youth differently...

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Black Families Have a Long History of Using School Choice as Resistance to Racist and Inadequate School Systems

January 29, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
3 min read
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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...

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Anti-Education Reformers: Make America Great Again

July 5, 2016
by Sharif El-Mekki
6 min read
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Anti-education reformers are some of the most interesting people I know. They often reminisce about and allude to a time when schools and systems worked for our communities. I try to follow them, but their recollections seem to...

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