Category: Wisdom

  • While many new outlets and blogs had articles prepared to run on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, I usually prefer to take in the experience and then write about it the next day (i.e. one of my personal favorite Cloaking Inequity MLK day posts is Honoring MLK: Remembered For the Extremist That He Was) My day began…

    Honoring MLK’s legacy (and not co-opting it)
  • Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: One thing (but not the only thing) I have learned about doing public work as an academic is that I am often positioned as the responder, and thus criticizing someone else’s claim. The result is that many are quick to refute my criticism as just that—so much…

    Rejecting False Claims about Education: A Primer for Journalists
  • Do you have a creative and critical perspective on Teach For America? If you are an educator, TFA corps member/alum, researcher, concerned citizen, parent, or student we invite you tocreate a 2-3 minute video to provide both a creative and critical perspective and/or counternarrative about TFA to further public conversation. Videos could include your own personal…

    Creative?: (Updated) Truth for America Video Project
  • Honored that Cloaking Inequity was ranked today as the 43rd best education blog in the world! Thank you to everyone who has contributed over the years! From Feedspot: Check out the top 50 education blogs to stay up to date on what people are talking about in the education space. This list is a resource to help educators and…

    Cloaking Inequity makes Top 50 in World!
  • Are you mad at Secretary Clinton about the “school closure” comments? I get it. You don’t want to be Barack Obama’d on education. We were promised hope and change and thought that would extend to education. Instead Arne Duncan took the reigns from George W. Bush, Rod Paige, and Margaret Spellings then did even worse.…

    Will @HillaryClinton go all in with us or Wall Street?

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