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Building a better life is hardly cause for retribution

Since when did working to obtain a safe and adequate education become a crime?  We have quickly adopted an educational system that is separate and unequal, as illustrated by three recent outrageous school-related news stories. Forget about fulfilling the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, which set the legal precedent for school desegregation; these [...]

On Sunday afternoon, I sat down with one of my favorite race bloggers, Tami Harris (What Tami Said) to discuss the Colorlines report that “a group of white male college students in Texas have taken their antipathy to new levels by offering scholarships exclusively for white males.”According to the Colorlines story, William Lake, an MBA [...]

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In a story that shocked the conscience of many Americans, an Ohio mother of two was jailed and branded with a felony for enrolling her children in a higher performing suburban school district in which she did not reside.   For trying to provide her children a better education, a jury convicted Kelley Williams-Bolar of falsifying [...]

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By Meridith E. Rode, Ph.D., University of District of Columbia, When I hear the cries for “going back to the real America” or “taking the country back” I wonder where back is and how far away it is from now. I fear “back” is white reveries of a mythical past which was in reality racist [...]

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I was flying cross country in mid September when I noticed that the airline’s peanut wrappers and napkins announced the arrival and importance of National Hispanic Heritage month.  While snacking I began to think about issues that prove important to members of this community, of which I am one.  Without a doubt there is much [...]

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Latina/o students continue to be the least studied racial/ethnic population in postsecondary education (Hernandez, 1999; López, 2007; Solórzano, Villalpando, Osguera 2005) and are largely excluded from discussions of race.  One reason for this could be that Latinas/os are comprised of multiple ethnicities, skin tones, and geographic locations.  Latinas/os are not a designated race, despite descriptions [...]

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By José Luis Vilson This week, NYC public schools start classes, at least for a day until another four-day weekend starts and kids really start coming in to school next Monday. In my classes, I’ve usually had students labeled as ELLs (English Language Learners), and they’re one of the hottest sub-topics in education today. The confluence [...]

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By Delia Pompa To help about 5,000 of the nation’s most troubled schools, the Obama administration is offering competitive Race to the Top funds to districts that lift their caps on charter schools. This approach is just one part of a larger strategy to reverse the decline of failing schools in this country. When we [...]

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One of the laments frequently echoed from the halls of higher education is that students are too often unprepared academically upon entering college. Students who have successfully completed their high school curricula and exit exams frequently find themselves mired in semesters of remedial college preparatory work upon enrolling in college. Both university professors and college [...]

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By Monise Seward “Negroes have no control over their education and have little voice in their other affairs pertaining thereto…The education of the Negroes, then, the most important thing in the uplift, of the Negroes, is almost entirely in the hands of those who have enslaved them and now segregate them.” Carter G. Woodson, The [...]

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