education
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The NAACP Will Learn the Pain Associated With Charter Schools
“Before the NAACP came to New Orleans, we never had the opportunity to share,” Kim Ford, communications chair for the New Orleans branch of the NAACP, said exclusively to The Root. Ford helped organize the national organization’s sixth hearing on quality education, which took place in the Crescent City on April 6. “We are a…
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Black Students More Likely to Graduate if They Have at Least 1 Black Teacher: Report
A new study co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University economist says that black students who have at least one black teacher in elementary school are significantly more likely to graduate high school and attend college. The study, “The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers,” is a new working paper published by the Institute of Labor Economics,…
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The National Interest: Teaching Gender Studies in Sex Ed Courses Is a Matter of Life and Death
Editor’s note: Once a month, the National Interest column will tackle broader questions about what the country should do to increase educational opportunities for black youths. We can’t teach safe sex if kids don’t understand their own and others’ gender identities. Women across the gender spectrum are being killed and raped every day, but our…
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Muslim Teen Writes #BlackLivesMatter 100 Times for His Stanford Application Statement, Gets Accepted
Is your activism performative or substantive? One New Jersey teen knew exactly how to show his answer to that question when filling out his application to Stanford University. Asked “What matters to you, and why?” the teen could think of only one thing: #BlackLivesMatter. Ziad Ahmed wrote the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter 100 times, and that one…
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Clearly, NY Post’s Naomi Schaefer Riley Doesn’t Understand My Work Educating Students of Color
In what was intended to be a critique of my recent keynote address at the 2017 SXSWedu conference, an uninformed, aspiring education columnist with no experience in research, theory or practice in the field does a wonderful job of showcasing her ignorance about teaching and learning, and exemplifying a major issue in the education of…
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Mock Slave Auction at NJ Elementary School Enrages Parents
You know, there’s a way to teach slavery to people, especially children, without involving fun, hand-drawn posters and role-playing in mock slave auctions. However, it seems as if a New Jersey school still hasn’t gotten the memo, and now it’s facing backlash from parents after a mock slave auction apparently took place in a fifth-grade…
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Ga. Teacher Gives Students a ‘Bad and Boujee’ Civil War Lesson
Getting students to pay attention in class isn’t always an easy task. So nowadays, you’ll find teachers trying to reach kids by incorporating things they can relate to, like Migos. David Yancey, a history teacher at a Georgia middle school, used Migos’ popular “Bad and Boujee” song to help his students learn about the Civil…
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The Distraction Of Racism And The Bipartisan Roots Of Chicago's Black Suffering
There’s a Toni Morrison quote I used to bristle at: “The function of racism is distraction.” I had never read the full context of this quote and initially, I thought this was another attempt to dismiss racism as a primary societal ill deserving of discussion, while prompting us to start paying attention to the “real”…
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Will Trump’s Executive Order Be a Boon or a Bust for HBCUs?
On Tuesday, when President Donald Trump signed the Presidential Executive Order on the White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, black college leaders and advocates were hoping for two things: more funding for HBCUs and a higher profile for the initiative in the White House. They received half…