Category: African Americans
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This week I blogged about the 2019 International School Choice and Reform conference in Portugal. What I didn’t mention in the post (See FROM PORTUGAL, WITH NO LOVE FROM THE EDUCATION REFORMERS) was the Twitter onslaught and venom from the White neoliberals directed towards Steve Nelson about his research after the conference. https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/1093589590798229504 I of course joined…
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I recently had the opportunity to be the “skunk in the garden party” so to say at the 2019 International School Choice and Reform conference in Portugal. https://www.instagram.com/p/BuCWQEQBtUf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link I was invited by Steve Nelson, faculty member at the University of Memphis, to be the discussant for a panel entitled School Choice and Black Communities: Discussing…
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Julian Vasquez Heilig and John C Scott remember MLK Jr and discuss the state of society today. Conversation is followed by MLK’s final speech that called for unity, economic actions, boycotts, and nonviolent protest, while challenging the United States to live up to its ideals. For more conversation in the media click here. For more…
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Other than the situation in Los Angeles USD. I believe that Houston is currently our most pressing urban district situation. The Republicans in Texas Legislature would like to take over the democratically-elected majority minority school board and turn Houston ISD into a charter district. I have a special place in my heart for Houston ISD…
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I am glad that Harvard’s EducationNext changed the original language in this piece about the Gulen charter schools and Turkey that incorrectly argued that the NAACP had rescinded its call for a charter school moratorium by stating that it had not been “renewed.” They have now taken that language out of the article online, but they…
Cloaking Inequity 