Category: Wisdom
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There’s something about people who are motivated to make the world better. People like you. As you watch this video, you’ll see it – an inner glow that illuminates the faces of people from across the University of Kentucky College of Education. Whether the faces belong to aspiring educators, like Hailey Wells, whose voice and piano…
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Two nights ago I was bunkered in my basement as tornado watches and warnings rolled through Kentucky. Fortunately the nearest known tornado was 30 miles away. Our community’s first reaction was shock and horror as we struggled to grasp the swath of destruction left by the early Saturday morning extreme weather. This was swiftly overtaken…
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Join the 11TH Conference on Education and Justice LIVE today and tomorrow! Go to https://www.kevinkumashiro.com/2021conference I’ll be presenting about a paradigm for equity and public education with several other EDJE member deans at 1:45 EST. Please Facebook Like, Tweet, etc below and/or reblog to share this discussion with others. Check out and follow my YouTube channel here.…
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Recently, Bob Greenberg, a retired teacher reached out to me about the The Brainwaves Video Anthology. He relayed: I am filming the “best and brightest” minds in education, the thinkers and doers: Noam Chomsky, Elijah Anderson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Molefi Kete Asante, Ken Burns, Bill Ayers, Jonathan Jansen, Eddie Glaude, Jr., Carol Dweck, Elizabeth…
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A reader sent me the following blog written by Zahal Turkmani, an Afghan American educator living in Arizona. I was born in Afghanistan. My country garners global headlines because of gruesome, horrific events involving Afghan people. However, three decades of conflict and war created inimical effects on Afghan people, including its educational system. Women, school-aged…
Cloaking Inequity 