Poverty
Why We've Got to Talk About Race If We Want to Achieve Education Equity
Our inability as a nation to engage in difficult conversations about race has left us with a lack of agreement on how to define equity. Yes, equity is about closing achievement gaps between White...
Poverty
Philadelphia's Great Unless You're a Sick Student at a School Filled With Asbestos and Lead
Philadelphia’s on the rise! The Eagles won the Super Bowl. Michelle Obama led an all star cast of celebrities to celebrate thousands of graduating high school seniors on College Signing Day....
bias
Hope and Outrage: Put Kanye’s Stupidity to Good Use
OUTRAGE: Having Black Skin Will Get You the Win So if y’all haven’t heard, we’re witnessing the rebirth of “Hidden Figures” in a Black Girl Magic trio from Banneker High School in D.C. India Skinner,...
student achievement
Hope and Outrage: A Tale of Two White Dudes
Outrage: Racist White Dude in Texas So, apparently Black Kids only get into Ivy League schools to fill quotas? https://twitter.com/_littledrizzy/status/986796203584077824 It basically went something...
bias
Everyone Keeps Talking About Implicit Racial Bias But What Is It?
Over the last few days, I’ve been tackling implicit bias with my eighth-graders. I mean, if Starbucks can shut down for a day to learn about it, so can we, right? Also, we’ve been reading pieces of...
bias
It Doesn't Just Happen at Starbucks. Teachers Need Racial Bias Training Too.
Last week, two Black men were arrested for sitting in a Starbucks here in Philadelphia. They were waiting for a friend who arrived shortly after his friends had been handcuffed. The men were...