Urban Educator Fighting for Public Education for our Communities and Finding My Voice in the Process
…click here to view panel discussion A panel of four experts, Keron Blair (activist and national organizer for the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools), Marilyn Shank (Indiana Coalition for Public Education), Dr. Kristen Buras (professor of Education Policy Studies at Georgia State University), and Dr. Keith Benson (teacher, parent, and Continue Reading…
“Both participants are scholars and gentlemen for allowing me to probe, and for us to have a great conversation centered around our differences, and how we can meet in the middle on some things.” – Ray Ankrum
… Originally run here on 1/21/2020 In 2014, Pete Denton of Excellent Education for Everyone, a New Jersey policy group, said, “Perhaps, most people in this room realize that an awful lot of people in the state don’t realize that we’re actually on track to shut down the traditional Camden public Continue Reading…
“That said, I do think it feels like a chance to rebuild student capacity and represents an overall good for our schools.”
Interview With Keith Benson, Camden Education Association President by Melissa Tomlinson (2017)
Certainly, behavioral and academic correction can be an expression of care, but students have to know caring is the place where the correction originates.
From my perspective, the ouroboros is a metaphorical rendering of American racism and those policies that perpetuate and reinforce it in their coupled exploitation of the nonwhite and the underclass.
“By working with Norcross – by dealing with him – Christie could infuse his term as governor with near limitless potential.” Similarly, few could argue that as a result of their shared alliance, Norcross emerged even more powerful than he was prior to Christie’s election.
Simply put, I’m asserting, the black education “leadership” class as referenced above are corporatists disguised as activists, and not at all are not who they claim to be.
Stepping back, I surmise that the ideals espoused by these pillars of Black Liberation Theology, should align seamlessly with the ideals of urban public education where masses of students of color come from communities that are the most economically challenged, and politically isolated.
