The report found that black teachers across the country feel a tension between their connection with black students and their desire to teach all populations of students. View full post on Education Week: Bullying #pso #htcs #b4inc
Hundreds of Seattle Teachers Will Wear Black Lives Matter Shirts This Week – Teaching Now – Education Week Teacher
Hundreds of educators in the Seattle school district will wear shirts in support of the Black Lives Matter movement after a district elementary school received threats about a similar event last month. View full post on Education Week: Bullying #pso #htcs #b4inc
Report: Miss. District Floats Desegregation Plan That Would Close Black Schools – District Dossier – Education Week
The Cleveland, Miss., school district was ordered in May to integrate its middle and high schools after a U.S. District Court judge found that the district had essentially maintained a segregated school system. But the district’s proposal to comply with the order would result in the closure of historically black…
Black Children Are More Likely To Get Hit By School Teachers, Report Says
When Wendy Chandler received a back-to-school packet from her daughter’s Alabama elementary school in 2013, she was stunned. Included in the packet was a permission slip asking if school staff members could administer corporal punishment on her child as a form of discipline. Chandler said that she did not give permission and…
Does ‘Black Lives Matter’ Matter? – Leadership 360 – Education Week
There is damage done by refusing to raise the questions and open the conversations about race. Although that damage may reside beneath the surface, it exists. View full post on Education Week: Bullying #pso #htcs #b4inc
Student receives apology for banned Black Lives Matter shirt – Education Week
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No, Most Black Kids Are Not Fatherless
Amid the debates raging now over racism in America, there’s a myth rearing its ugly head. It’s one I’ve been fighting to end, and one that all those of us committed to both racial and gender equality should learn about. The myth is that most black fathers are absent from…
Black Feminist Fatherhood
I remember an argument I had with my father as a little girl, in which I declared with my “Independent Women — Destiny’s Child” brand of girl power and wisdom that he was not a feminist. He gave me a puzzled, unimpressed look and responded “I’m not a feminist?” before…
Parents of black girl, 12, with rope burn sue Texas school – Education Week
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Rope burn to neck of black girl, 12, ignites dispute – Education Week
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