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12/11/2022

Immigrant Education in America is a Series of Stories of Courage

by Jessica Lander

One in four K-12 students today is an immigrant or a child of immigrants. A high school history teacher in an immigrant-serving school argues that we need to remember the examples of past educators who defied law and prejudice to make schools places where immigrants became Americans.

SOURCE: Texas Tribune
6/22/2022

Before the Tragedy, Uvalde Was the Site of a Major School Walkout. Will That History Be Lost?

In 1970, ethnic Mexican students at Uvalde High School staged a six-week school boycott to protest persistent segregation and pervasive disrespect from teachers and administrators.

SOURCE: The Conversation
5/13/2022

At Brown v. Board Anniversary, US Schools Remain Segregated

by Pedro A. Noguera

Ongoing residential segregation by race and income, along with school reforms allowing parents to exercise choice in school attendance, have contributed to ongoing patterns of segregated public education that threaten the nation's ability to create a pluralistic democracy.

SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/3/2022

Affluent White Parents Don't Understand the "Public" in Public Schools

by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz

Are parents' rights movements aimed at ensuring quality education, or at destroying the potential of public schools to support both learning and a democratic culture across lines of race and class?

SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/6/2021

Equal School Facilities Should Be Part of "Infrastructure"

by Erika M. Kitzmiller and Akira Drake Rodriguez

A century of discriminatory policies have "set the stage for underinvestment in public education and the wide variance in school facilities that serve White and non-White youths today."

SOURCE: ColorLines
8/26/2020

The Great White Heist (The Other Reason For Reparations)

Slavery is the usual argument for reparations. But there’s another rationale.