My son’s first “real” parent conference is scheduled for today. Why am I so nervous? Certainly, as a teacher, I’ve conducted hundreds of parent conferences over the years – conference time, for us was a nice short day, where either you could get your extra work done, or chat with the teacher next [...]
I had the pleasure of reading an article from 2003 entitled “Rich, Black and Flunking” which centered on an anthropological study of a K-12 school district in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Both the parents and school district called in John Ogbu, the author of the study to give them answers as to why many Black students, [...]
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Black Patriots – Still Not Good Enough!
As Black Americans, it has been difficult through the years to feel a real connection to a country whose people, in some places, still feel the innate need to treat a person of a different race as a second class person. Although Dr. King and at the latter [...]
