by Education Radio
Founded in 1990 by Wendy Kopp, Teach For America has become the personnel agency for corporate school reform. School districts fire experienced, often black teachers to hire underpaid TFA recruits with 5 weeks training to do brief "missionary work" stints in public schools before moving on. Turning teaching into Wal-Mart style temp work is what TFA is all about.
Click the flash player below to listen to part one of this vitally important two hour audio program prepared by the good people at Education Radio.
I had a nightmare that down in Mississippi, its governor having his lips dripping with words of Social Darwinism, Herd immunity and Mengele Medicine,
The rapidity with which the pandemic has consumed black communities provides an unvarnished look into the dynamics of race and class that existed long before it emerged
At the heart of health disparities is antiblackness, a social code that renders Black people disposable.
Public pressure works. Some local entities are not willing to work with ICE anymore.
Black thought is environmental thought and Black Studies is, at its core, an ecological critique.
