“We were at graduation, me and him, and we were talking. He said he wasn’t going to end up like some people on the streets. He was going to get an education.” --Hershel Johnson, a friend Michael Brown’s since middle school. In the wake of the police murder of the unarmed 18-year-old African American high …
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ColorLines magazine: MAP test boycott among “10 Racial Justice Wins for 2013”!
Video: 10 Racial Justice Wins For 2013 ColorLines magazine just released their list of “10 Racial Justice Wins for 2013”—and it is impressive. In a year when George Zimmerman was permitted to legally lynch Trayvon Martin, it can be all too easy to overlook the hard work of racial justice activists around the nation who …
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Jesse Hagopian’s Testimony On Testing: Educators provide first-hand account to the Congressional Black Caucus of how destructive ed reforms hurt students
Source: Education Votes/edvotes.org Photo: Seattle educator Jesse Hagopian at CBC Foundation 43rd Annual Legislative Conference Sign up to follow Jesse's blog at: http://www.IAmAnEducator.com & Follow Jesse on twitter at: https://twitter.com/JessedHagopian Educators provide first-hand account of how destructive ed reforms hurt students by Brian Washington Jesse Hagopian spent the first three years of his teaching career …
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Mr. Hagopian Goes To Washington–To testify to the U.S. Congress on testing!
I have been invited to Washington, D.C. to testify before the Congressional Black Caucus of the United States Congress about how the high-stakes standardized testing craze is eroding public education, fueling the school-to-prison-pipeline, and being used to label schools as failures and close them down--particularly schools that serve African American students. In addition to my …
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What I couldn’t say to my son about Trayvon
Demonstrations were held in hundreds of cities across the country yesterday to demand justice for Trayvon Martin and the prosecution of his murderer, George Zimmerman. I spoke at the rally in Seattle yesterday about Trayvon, the school-to-prison-pipeline, and how when my son asked me what had happened to Trayvon, I couldn't find the words to …
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