Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea
Black Perspectives
OCTOBER 20, 2016
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the academic achievement gap–built and continuously renovated by the 100-year-old standardized testing movement. It is a centennial that hardly anyone knows about.
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Brother to Brother: An Open Letter to Nate Parker
Black Perspectives
AUGUST 22, 2016
Dear Brother Nate: I write to you as my brother because I cannot think of anything else to call you but my brother. When I learned about how you and your friend were tried for raping an intoxicated fellow student at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, the anger, embarrassment, and shame I felt were feelings I would feel for a family member.
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Racism Is Not a Teaching Tool
The Chronicle
MAY 30, 2016
Black lives in the United States are surrounded by memorials to people who did not think that black lives mattered. That is a fact of black life in America. That is a fact of black life in American academe.
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