Nancy MacLean: The Segregationist History of School Choice
School choice is rooted in a history of segregation and racism. Katherine Stewart wrote about this sordid history in her book The Power Worshippers: Inside...
Category : Racism
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw: Dr. King Understood “Critical Race Theory” Before It Had a Name
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a professor of law at Columbia and UCLA and one of the leading figures in the field of critical race studies....
Jesse Hagopian: We Will Not Teach Lies
Jesse Hagopian is an activist teacher in the Seattle Public Schools, a leader in Black Lives Matter at School and editor of the book More...
Youngkin Sends His Children to Elite Private Schools That Teach Critical Race Theory
Glenn Youngkin’s campaign for Governor of Virginia was fueled in large part by attacks on public schools. Youngkin said that the state’s public schools were...
Paul Waldman: Republicans Are Vilifying America’s Schools. When Will Democrats Fight Back?
Paul Waldman is an opinion columnist for The Washington Post. In this article, he criticizes Democrats for failing to stand up to Republican slanders and...
Jitu Brown: Schools Can Fight the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Civil rights leader Jitu Brown wrote in an opinion article for The Chicago Tribune about the importance of using the schools to combat the school-to-prison...
Florida: Another DeSantis Attack on Teachers, Schools and Common Decency
Peter Greene describes his latest gambit. He is pressing for the adoption of his “Stop WOKE” act. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is doing his level...
CORRECTION! Louisiana: Homer Plessy Pardoned After 130 Years
Steve Luxenberg, an editor at The Washington Post and the author of a 2019 book on racial separation and the Plessy case, Separate: The Story...
Louisiana: Homer Plessy Pardoned After 130 Years
At the end of the 19th century, Homer Plessy was arrested for trying to ride in an all-white train car in New Orleans, thus ignoring...