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Does the public response to L.A.’s teacher strike mean #EdReform is losing?
Now that the L.A. teachers’ strike is over, can we be honest and say it wasn’t for us?
Education Autocrats Got Jokes, and They’re All On Us
I posted a New York Times article on Facebook yesterday that said Black people still face redlining in housing due to longstanding bank lending practices. My friend Derrell Bradford responded by saying “Yeah….but….neighborhood schools……” Allow me to break the first rule of comedy. I’m going to explain his joke. In edu- world we constantly hear…
Occupiers in the hood
For the past week a determined mass of community activists have held down an encampment around Minneapolis’ 4th precinct police headquarters in protest of the officer involved shooting and killing of Jamar Clark, a black man who witnesses say was unarmed and handcuffed on the ground when he was shot. There is a dramatic contrast between the…