24 Aug The Education Revolution will NOT be Televised
The education revolution will not be televised…
...The education revolution will not be televised…
...DJ was always angry. He had no impulse control. He was the oldest of eight children with a mother only fourteen years his senior. His life trajectory was not good. Yet I was determined. This was one young, Black man for whom I...
I soon became frustrated hearing, again, about the lack of academic progress and the seemingly constant excuse-making for failing to educate the children of my adopted hometown. Institutional and community memory is a funny thing.
...The root of the word integration is integer. The Latin meaning of which is “to make whole.” (Thank you Mr. Sousa. Those three years of Latin still come in handy.) Here it is 2018. I would argue that most students of color in...
His words still ring true and, interpreted under a different light, underscore the current state of public education for children of color in the United States today. I chose to take a bit of interpretive license in my blog post of today, examining...
The school as an organism was stuck. Stuck in a mindset that fostered inertia. Stuck in a mindset that said, "These kids can't learn, and if they can, we aren't set up to teach them."
...This week, three events incited my ire: the newly released data around racism in school discipline, Texas’ renaming of Mexican American Studies as Ethnic Studies, and the College Boards revision on the AP World History exam.
...Over the seven months that I studied them, I saw tremendous (statistically significant) growth in their vocabulary and reading scores. More importantly, I saw the lights come on when they experienced success for the first time in their academic career. I saw their...
I am fond of Iyanla Vanzant’s statement: “You’ve got to call a thing a thing.” So… here’s the thing: Those learners whose underprivileged status is frequently cited as the underlying reason for their academic achievement (or lack thereof) are not. They are not underprivileged. They are not-privileged. As educators...
As I think upon the college and career readiness levels of which we are to prepare our learners, our most fragile and too-frequently disenfranchised learners, I cannot help but advocate that it is time to rethink what we teach. We must align our...