by admin | Dec 16, 2008 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education, Neoliberalism, Public Policy, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Roland Fryer has been working on a program that pays children for academic success for a while now, and its been rolled out in Chicago, New York City, and Washington D.C. even though research argues that it does little to nothing to reduce the achievement gap. For all...
by admin | Dec 3, 2008 | Education, Neoliberalism, things that make you go hmm
Another obstacle to quality teaching and research lies in the fact that the increasing loss of public funding is pushing more universities to align themselves with the national security state, which then faithfully rewards them with billions of dollars in research...
by admin | Nov 22, 2008 | Democracy, Education, The Mass Media |
In the wake of what is sure to be the end of the world as we know it–and this doesn’t have to sound as apocalyptic as I make it seem–some are asking whether we are culturally prepared for the oncoming shift. There are over 42 million American...
by admin | Oct 31, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Education, Obama, Politics, The Mass Media |
I’m doing some work for blackprof this month. And going straight to video, in order to begin a new type of conversation as I note below: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo_vK5vfvXc[/youtube]
by admin | Oct 22, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Education, Obama |
My daughter’s American government teacher called Obama a socialist in her class today. Friday? I’m dropping the hammer. I haven’t talked about it much but this past September we made the decision to send all of our kids to school. It was a hard...
by admin | Aug 12, 2008 | Education, NPR, The Mass Media |
But it’s not this Spence but that one. The number of black homeschoolers has been shooting through the roof, in part because of the increase in black Christian families interested in embedding Christian principles in education, but also because of a sense that...
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