Urban Educator Fighting for Public Education for our Communities and Finding My Voice in the Process
Featured
continued from Part III… Groups like these (above) invest, meaning put up money, to make money by propping up corporate charter schools, and dismantling specifically public schools with majority students and teachers of color in the process. These investment firms, started by the rich (and white), are quite literally making Continue Reading…
Featured
And in folks ignoring that economic situatedness, more than anything, influences students’ academic outcomes and economic opportunity, again, absolves government and politicians of their responsibility to fix economic inequality.
Featured
Black folks have always had to contend with the systemic injustices of capitalism, while we simultaneously have to deal with centuries of injustice due to racism and racial exploitation. That dual experience is real, distinct, and unique.
Featured
We have to be cognizant about our nation’s economic reality, and beneficiaries of the radical redistribution of wealth UPWARD, in order to understand where and how the modern attack on specifically urban teacher unions and urban education fits.
Featured
We are dealing with an exceedingly tenuous moment in American history and looking away from reality will not save us any more than insufficient solutions will. The late Barbara Ehrenreich commented, “delusion is no way to confront reality.”
Featured
Picking up where we left off, and digging deeper on the substance of civics and politics, here, we delve into why achieving change is so difficult, particularly for constituencies that are poor, working-class, Black and Latino — even when elected leadership is Democratic or Black and Democratic.
Featured
…And no more than 48 hours after posting that entry, I scrolled on my Twitter timeline (@keithericbenson) to find that Luther Luke Campbell (@uncleluke) would be hosting a Twitter Spaces entitled, “Years of supporting the democratic party, why Black still in poverty” where it appeared 77 people were committed to participating or, at the very least, listening. Here we go…
Featured
Where there has been a decades-long fragmenting of subjects like social studies and civics, with the democratized social media space we have now, information-hungry people who want answers and explanations for matters pertaining to government are going to search for them, and find some semblance of both; whether the information is accurate or not matters little as accessibility and one’s ability to discern fact, from nonsense is increasingly a coin-toss.
Featured
…the reality is becoming depressingly clear that voting, along with traditional organizing are insufficient approaches to counter American oligarchy that is pushing us ever closer to catastrophe…
Featured
“Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.”
