Announcing the Cover Reveal of “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education”

I am thrilled to reveal the cover of my new book, Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education, on today’s National #TeachTruth Day of Action! 📚✨ Please pre-order the book today and join the struggle! In recent years, nearly half of U.S. students have been subjected to laws mandating their teachers lie to them about …

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Common Core Testing During Ramadan: Hungry for an end to the Islamophobia & racism of high-stakes testing

The following statement was sent to me by Shannon Crowley, an elementary school teacher in the Seattle Public Schools.  She raises a disturbing reality of yet another way that high-stakes standardized testing is negatively impacting our students of color.  I will just preface her story by saying that Muslims all around the world began to …

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“This is a test”: Educating to End the School-to-Grave-Pipeline in Ferguson and Beyond

“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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