An Important New Book About New Orleans and Its Schools
Three scholars have recently published a very informative book about the history of education in New Orleans. The authors tell this story by scrutinizing one...
Category : Racism
Florida: Inside the Dark, Dirty Secrets of Florida’s Jeb Crow Schools of “Choice”
Billy Townsend was a school board member in Polk County, Florida. He saw up close and personal how charters were sucking the high-scoring students out...
Why Zip Codes Matter
From the earliest days of corporate reform, which is now generally recognized to have been a failed effort to “reform” schools by privatizing them and...
Dr. Seuss and “Cancel Culture”
The publisher of the many books written by Theodor Geisl (“Dr. Seuss”) announced that it was suspending publication of six books that contained demeaning drawings...
New Orleans: The Other Side of the Story
I recently interviewed Raynard Sanders, a veteran educator in New Orleans, about his new book The Coup D’etat of the New Orleans Public Schools: Money,...
Denisha Jones: The Day Joe Biden Lied to Me About Standardized Testing
Denisha Jones explains here what happened at a televised event in Pittsburgh when she asked candidate Joe Biden if he would eliminate standardized testing. Denisha...
Steve Hinnefeld: Black Legislators in Indiana Were Right to Talk about Race
Veteran blogger Steve Hinnefeld writes about education in Indiana. In this post, he describes a controversy in the Legislature about whether a portion of a...
Al Franken on Rush Limbaugh’s Squalid Legacy
Al Franken is the former Senator from Minnesota. He wrote this retrospective on Rush Limbaugh in the New York Daily News. Rush Limbaugh died this...
Join Me Wednesday to Learn the Inside Story of the New Orleans “Coup D’Etat”
On Wednesday February 10, I will host a Zoom discussion with Raynard Sanders about his new book, The Coup D’état of the New Orleans Public...
North Carolina Adopts New Social Studies Curriculum, Despite Opposition of Black Lieutenant Governor
North Carolina adopted a new social studies curriculum, despite the efforts of the newly elected Lieutenant Governor to remove any references to “systemic racism.” (CNN)The...