“I didn’t come here to teach those kinds of kids.” It’s alarming to think that adults charged with helping students of color succeed in school would hold such thoughts, much less say it aloud. But...
The children of 1960s-era civil rights-leading parents, my siblings and I were always told that the key to success in life is education. Amid marching with Dr. King in Montgomery and meeting Malcolm...
As an eighth-grader, Leonard Ferguson signed up for the plumbing concentration at Baltimore County’s Western School of Technology and Environmental Science, but he wasn’t sold on being a plumber....
“What you not gone do..."—An African American proverb Last week, Democrats for Education Reform released polling data that show what Black parents of school-age children already know: Black folks,...
This is the moment in time when Black leaders must decide how committed they are—or are not—to the education of Black and Brown children. This week, ground zero of our education war is California but...
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