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Publics Versus Charters and the Student Underclass
The ideological brawl between charter and public school advocates obscures the truth that there is a substantial group of big city low income kids of color whose needs are not met by either camp. Continue reading
Discipline and Students of Color: the Ecology of Student Experience
You are a student of color in a large American high school, perhaps also a recent immigrant. A friend of yours has run afoul a school code; let us say by talking disrespectfully, out of control, to a teacher. Continue reading
Posted in At Risk Students, School Reform, Schools and Culture, Schools and Politics
Tagged alternative schools, charter schools, disproportionate discipline, econlogy of schools, ecosystem of schools, iGrad, school funding, staff mix school funding, students of color, Suspension, unconscious bias, Washington State Legislature
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History Lessons and Poor White Kids
This voyage into the world of the white underclass begins with a challenge to American myth. The colonies did not simply, as the school books tell, embrace the new European immigrants all on equal terms. Continue reading
See the Kids of Color
Summary: Paintings of young people by Kehinde Wiley are an opportunity to move beyond racial stereotypes and into contemplation of real lives. Continue reading
