Urban Educator Fighting for Public Education for our Communities and Finding My Voice in the Process
Certainly, behavioral and academic correction can be an expression of care, but students have to know caring is the place where the correction originates.
“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.
…the original can be found here…http://www.bluejersey.com/2015/05/welcome-to-camden-president-obama-here-are-some-things-i-think-you-need-to-know-about-education/ On May 18, 2015, President Barack Obama made a presidential trip to Camden to talk about “Camden Rising”. He spoke of stronger bonds between the new Camden County Police Department and residents, an economic resurgence embodied in the arrival of massive corporations, and a Continue Reading…
“We’re out here to try to fight for our schools,” Benson said at the union headquarters.
“Schoolchildren across the US are plagued by air pollution that’s linked to multiple brain-related problems, with black, Hispanic and low-income students most likely to be exposed to a fug of harmful toxins at school, scientists and educators have warned.”
(Feel free to subsitute Camden for any county – the message stays the same) Each Spring, in efforts the celebrate our graduating public-school seniors, the Camden Education Association publishes the name of every graduating senior along with their post-secondary destination whether it be college, trade school, employment, or the military. Continue Reading…
The common understanding of “better” schools motivating parents to choose schools is understood to reference a better academic setting, but this is a not central motivator for school selection. Parent choice by urban parents is more complex than “school quality”
Purchase Education Reform and Gentrification in Age of #CamdenRising at: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/63421
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
Article can be accessed at: http://www.bluejersey.com/2019/03/in-camden-collective-sacrifices-must-be-made/ 3/28/2019 The night following the Camden City School District’s monthly meeting, I found it enormously difficult to sleep – so much so, that at 3:42 am I am awake writing this Op/Ed. Comments made by the Acting State Superintendent Katrina McCombs regarding the fiscal Continue Reading…
