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My View: Why Trump’s “1776 Commission” Is a Very Bad Idea

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7November 9, 2020November 26, 2020

November 9, 2020November 26, 2020012

I was invited to write for The Hill, a D.C.-based website, about why I oppose the Trump administration’s executive order creating a “1776 Commission” to...

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Chalkbeat: GreatSchools Revises Its Rating System But It’s Still Tied to Test Scores

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 28, 2020November 26, 2020

September 28, 2020November 26, 2020012

Chalkbeat reports that the rating agency GreatSchools has revised the way it measures school quality. Critics have long complained that its reliance on test scores...

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Trump: Schools Must Teach “Patriotic” U.S. History

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 18, 2020November 26, 2020

September 18, 2020November 26, 2020010

Standing in front of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution at the National Archives, Trump denounced the teaching of history in U.S. schools...

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Trump Threatens to Withdraw Federal Funds from Schools That Teach Anti-Racism Courses

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 10, 2020November 26, 2020

September 10, 2020November 26, 202006

Trump has been on a rant about teaching history, despite the fact that his own knowledge of American and world history is limited, possibly non-existent....

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Today is the Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, Led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7August 28, 2020November 26, 2020

August 28, 2020November 26, 202003

I was there with my husband Richard. Dick was a close friend of Bayard Rustin, one of the day’s organizers. We took the train To...

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University of Kentucky Joins with NAACP to Establish New Research Initiative

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7August 7, 2020November 26, 2020

August 7, 2020November 26, 202008

The University of Kentucky College of Education and the NAACP have agreed to establish a research center at the university to address issues of concern...

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Black Students and Staff Speak Out About Charters

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 16, 2020November 26, 2020

July 16, 2020November 26, 202008

Black students/staff at charter schools fight back on Instagram. Lots ofamazing stuff here. @[email protected][email protected]@[email protected]@[email protected]@[email protected] Like this: Like Loading…...

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Making Black Lives Matter in School

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 15, 2020November 26, 2020

July 15, 2020November 26, 2020010

The following article appeared in the Grio and was co-authored by Dr. Andre Perry, Jitu Brown, Keron Blair, Richard Fowler, Stacy Davis Gates and Tiffany...