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Ninety-six Percent of Pennsylvania’s Teachers are White. Damn.

June 29, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
5 min read
3 Comments

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...

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96% Of Pennsylvania’s Teachers Are White. Does Anyone Else Think This Is A Problem?

May 8, 2018
by Sharif El-Mekki
1 min read
1 Comment

I recently participated in a Twitter chat, #4percent, with researchers from Research for Action and other educators as a follow up to RFA’s insightful recent report, Patching the Leaky Pipeline: Recruiting and Retaining...

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What’s More Important, “Stranded Costs” Or Stranded Students?

September 20, 2017
by Sharif El-Mekki
4 min read
1 Comment

This is a guest post from Mr. David Hardy. It originally appeared on the Philly.Com and was reproduced here with his permission. Mr. Hardy is one of my heroes. He is the co-founder and retired CEO of Boys Latin Charter School...

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