Harvard Faculty Approve Dissertation Stating that Latino Immigrants are Intellectually Inferior to Whites
Sometimes, when you use enough fancy words and have a Harvard name behind you, people are willing to accept utter nonsense as a form of scholarship. Harvard, the school that rarely hires African American, Native American or Latino faculty in nearly any department, is able to escape the obvious allegation of being racially-exclusive primarily because [...]
Dr. Byron Price Works to Kill the School-to-Prison Pipeline
There’s a disturbing trend taking place in our public schools, especially in high poverty neighborhoods – where hallways and grounds are patrolled by police and disciplinary problems are no longer handled by counseling and detention but by suspension and arrest. Known as the school-to-prison pipeline, the trend is turning our adolescent students into criminals at [...]
Black Agenda Report Says Indicted Atlanta Superintendent Doesn’t Deserve Black Support
There are those who feel that former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall was the victim of racial scapegoating. But there are some who feel that Hall doesn’t deserve support from the black community, largely because she is no victim of racism. In a compelling article, BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon outlined Hall’s contributions to [...]
Do We Hate Our Children?
Great societies value their children. They implement as a matter of course policies and practices that support each child’s healthy development, guarantee the fulfillment of a basic level of need, and in the best of all worlds, provide the tools with which talents can be developed, dreams can be nurtured and potential has, [...]
Education Under Arrest: Taking America Out of Its Comfort Zone
We had to shut the cameras down for a moment. The testimony of the two New Orleans sisters, Kenyatta, 15, and Kennisha, 17, was too surreal, too emotional and too raw. Kenyatta was involved in a fight at school that she didn’t start. Because of “zero tolerance” policies adopted at their high school [...]
Louis Farrakhan, Dr. Boyce Watkins and Racism 101: The University of Illinois at Chicago
by Richard Muhammad (FinalCall.com) – The University of Illinois Chicago is teaching an unintended, painful but important lesson with its cancellation of a program to discuss Black economics, Black families and Black progress that was scheduled at the school for March 30. Dr. Boyce Watkins, a writer and analyst who moonlights as a Syracuse University [...]
Confessions of a Black Education Reformer
Writing for The Root DC, Natalie Hopkinson explores Andre M. Perry’s take on school discipline, which she calls “one of the realest, toughest calls reforming schools have to make.” “We can’t teach every child because Clarence is a terror,” he pleaded to the discipline committee. “He disrupts the environment.” But the CEO of the [...]
Bren Martin: Fixing the School to Prison Pipeline
by Bren Martin As a parent and a parent/community leader, I have a dire concern about the prevailing school-to-prison pipeline that has many pipes through which it works. “According to the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), over 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or referred to law enforcement are Hispanic or [...]
Creating ‘ladders of opportunity’ in Harlem and communities across the country
A child’s zip code should never determine her destiny. But today, a child’s health, educational outcomes, and lifetime economic opportunities are often negatively impacted when she grows up in a high poverty community. Harlem Children’s Zone is working to change that. This week, I visited this neighborhood nonprofit, with its president and CEO, [...]
Can a Hungry Child Learn Well? Probably Not
Imagine how hunger affects your progress at work; now imagine being 7 years old, hungry every day and haunted by the fact that how you do on a math test could determine whether your family gets dinner next week. Legislation proposed by two congressmen last week would make such a scenario all too [...]
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