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  • Ezra McCoy
    Roc Nation’s Lobbying Efforts Cast Suspicion on Jay Z’s Association with GOP’s Top Funder
    19 Jun 2024
    Jay Z has consistently shown himself willing to be used as a Black face to run cover for conservative political endeavors. He is now promoting a voucher program that will reduce funding for public…
  • Sumo Wrestlers & Supermodels: Reimagining the Education of Black Children
    David Marcus Rutherford
    Sumo Wrestlers & Supermodels: Reimagining the Education of Black Children
    24 Feb 2021
      How do we define success for Black students and the adults that they become? 
  • Students of Color are Harmed Most by the “Broken Windows” Teaching
    Victoria Theisen-Homer
    Students of Color are Harmed Most by the “Broken Windows” Teaching
    12 Aug 2020
    “No excuses” teaching borrows from the “broken windows” theory of policing, which has been enacted in U.S. cities since the mid-1980s.
  • los angeles school strike 2019
    Behind the News with Doug Henwood
    Los Angeles Teachers Use the Old Successful Organizing Methods
    14 Feb 2019
    Like the 2006 strike of 30,000 NYC transit workers, and the 2012 strike of 30,000 Chicago teachers, the 2019 Los Angeles teacher strike made the lives of tens and hundreds of thousands of ordinary
  • Lessons, Successes and Failures of the West Virginia Teacher Strike
    Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    Lessons, Successes, Failures of the West Virginia Teachers Strike
    08 Mar 2018
    The 9 day West Virginia school strike was a long time coming, and contains a number of useful, if not new lessons.
  • Chicago Teachers Union and Charter School Teachers Have Joined Forces
    Jeff Schuhrke
    Chicago Teachers Union and Charter School Teachers Have Joined Forces
    07 Feb 2018
    “Leaders of both union locals say they don’t have a problem with charter schools per se, but rather they oppose the proliferation of the charter system of mana
  • hustla
    Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    Roland Martin: That Hustla Ova There Tryna Sell Us School Privatization
    09 Feb 2017
    Roland Martin pretends to be a journalist. But what does a guy do when the one percent won't pay for an informed public? Roland is a hustla for hire, and he's found a dependable set of clients.
  • Dr. Walter C. Farrell Jr.
    Public School Privatization Strategies: What Teachers, Unions, and Public Education Stakeholders Should Know
    04 Nov 2015
    The future of public education is not guaranteed.
  • drama queen
    Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    Demonizing Teachers, Privatizing Schools: The Big Lies and Big Plans Behind the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal
    22 Apr 2015
    Should we be wondering if the prosecution of cheating Atlanta teachers for racketeering was racist?
  • Samantha Winslow
    An iPad on Every Desk?: A Trojan Horse, Teachers Say
    24 Nov 2013
    School districts that place iPads and mobile devices into classrooms are being praised (and praising themselves) for "innovation.  But what's this really about?
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