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Are Racially Inequitable Outcomes Racist?
Among what may seem to be marginally related policies and conditions, these all have one startling thing in common—grade retention, school discipline, NCAA athletics, incarceration, “grit,” “no...
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Day on Diversity at the University of South Carolina
I am participating as a discussion leader and speaker for a day on diversity at the University of South Carolina 14 April 2016. Below are my notes which may be of value to some addressing race and...
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Even Technocrats with Good Intentions Sustain Classroom Colonialism
Kassie Benjamin offers a powerful confession at Jose Vilson’s blog. Benjamin—like many educators including myself—became an educator firmly holding to the belief that education is the great equalizer,...
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How Good Is the Best Edujournalism?
A recurring theme running through my blog posts—one that could be addressed daily—is that education journalism is almost always significantly misleading and way too often completely inaccurate....
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Outliers Never Evidence of Normal in Education
In Money, Race and Success: How Your School District Compares, the NYT, like most of mainstream media, is begrudgingly coming to admit that race and class inequity in the U.S. has a profound impact on...
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9 June 2016 Reader: School Choice, GPA v. SAT/ACT
I. School Choice, Charter Choice Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City, Nikole Hannah-Jones When the New York City Public Schools catalog arrived in the mail one day that spring, with...
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Education Reform in the Absence of Political Courage: Charleston (SC) Edition
Words matter, and thus, I must apologize by opening here with a mundane but essential clarification of terms. As I have written over and over, everything involving humans is necessarily political, even...
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6 April 2017 Reader: Segregation and James Baldwin
But it’s also a country where if you’re running and you’re black there is a high chance you’ll be shot in the back. Then there will be a brief and cinematic fuss but no justice. Baldwin’s beautiful and...
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Innovative Deception: The Charter Scam Chronicles Continue
The school choice movement has its roots in mid-twentieth century, and was bolstered by some ugly truths about racism in the U.S. during the Civil Rights movement and public school integration. While...
View ArticleSegregation Surprise?: How Public and Charter Schools Have (Always) Failed
On social media, I witnessed charter advocates try to justify the exact failures Andre Perry unmasks in his Charter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their movement, where...
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Nationally, momentum has been building toward political and public recognition that the education reform movement begun in the early 1980s has fallen well short of promises. This failure was identified...
View ArticleNicholas Buccola’s The Fire Is Upon Us: “For the American Right, the price of...
William F. Buckley, I suppose, would have wanted to be remembered as a powerful and charismatic public intellectual for conservatism and one of the foundational thinkers in the late 20th-/early...
View ArticleClarifications: Greenville desegregation: Academic achievement gap slowly...
Ariel Gilreath offers a strong overview in her Greenville desegregation: Academic achievement gap slowly closing, but inequities persist. A key point in this look at desegregation confronts the...
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