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School Is Now Online and Plenty of Children Are Shut Out

October 21, 2020
by Zachary Wright
6 min read
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It’s October, almost seven months into a pandemic that has turned the world upside down. Since the shutdowns in March, folks have adapted; businesses have gotten creative with curbside pickup and contactless delivery. Families...

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Schools Are “Open” But Our Children Still Don’t Have Access To Them

September 30, 2020
by Zachary Wright
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Last month, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia released a brief exposing the gaping digital inequities between those with and those without broadband access and the related impact on the city’s worsening unemployment...

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Comcast, Open Wi-Fi Networks to Get 20,000 Philadelphia Students Online

May 31, 2020
by Zachary Wright
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If there were villains in Philadelphia’s COVID-19 nightmare, Comcast would be right up there with Joel Freedman, owner of the shuttered and unused Hahnemann Hospital. 20,000 Philadelphia students without internet connections...

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Some of Those Folks Who Claim to Be Progressives Are Lying

November 10, 2019
by Zachary Wright
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“Progressive” is a slippery word. The very term denotes improvement, progress, and thus is by nature a desirable term with which to self-apply. But “progress” is in the eye of the beholder. What might be...

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Public Schools Have Always Been Separate And Unequal. Today They’re Funded to Stay That Way

April 1, 2019
by Sharif El-Mekki
5 min read
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Students around the country are taught about America’s glorious victory in Brown v. Board of Education, the seminal moment that undid Plessy v. Ferguson’s separate but equal racial segregation. Desegregation is touted as a...

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It’s Non-Negotiable. We Have to Teach Social Justice in Our Schools.

January 6, 2019
by Zachary Wright
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J. Martin Rochester, a professor of political science at the University of St. Louis-Missouri, once wrote an article raising concerns about teaching social justice in schools. Rochester’s problem with teaching social justice...

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No Matter What Anyone Says, the Money Ought to Follow the Kid Regardless of What Kind of Public School They Choose

November 12, 2018
by Zachary Wright
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I am punching above my weight. I am no education policy wonk, nor am I a mover or shaker in America’s larger educational conversation. But a recent blog post by the well-known edu-legends Carol Burris and Diane Ravitch on The...

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The Horrid Legacy of American Racism Captured In a Museum in Alabama

October 11, 2018
by Zachary Wright
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The room is dimly lit when you enter, a short ramp leading you further into the darkness. Five prison cells await.  Old. Wooden with iron bars and solid padlocks. Within, ghostly apparitions come into focus.  Old women. Young...

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When Students Aren’t Proficient in Reading or Math, It Isn’t a Shame, It’s Violence

August 6, 2018
by Zachary Wright
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I’ve written about teacher accountability before, but I recently read a few things that got me thinking. The first was a report out of Los Angeles that showed that nearly half the teachers in Los Angeles’...

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Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Fight for Educational Equity

June 5, 2018
by Zachary Wright
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At Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus, I’m not just a teacher; I am a warrior for social justice. Education in America, wherein we have legislated who can learn and with whom one can learn, is inseparable from...

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