Mandela asks only, how shall I produce cooperation and friendship? We need to think deeper about anger when we choose to react to certain situations and people. During these turbulent times the need to refrain from anger becomes even more...
Read moreAmerican Students of Color in Unequal Education Systems
“Our systemic failure to educate some groups of children as well as others tears at the moral fabric of the nation.” With evidence of racial disparities in the disciplining of children beginning in preschool, we can expect students of...
Read moreYoung men are natural fanatics
Of course, not all young men, even the fanatics, become terrorists. Young men are not all the same. Different outcomes might be due to different social factors. Many terrorists come from criminal or deprived backgrounds. We know that a neglected...
Read moreCuba’s Efforts to Combat Racism through Hip-Hop
Interesting article on the current state of race relations in Cuba. They have a long way to go but at least they’re trying. “[The Cuban government] expected racism to wither away once its perceived structural bases were dismantled. It did...
Read moreThe Importance of Diversity in Literature
Dominican novelist Junot Diaz explains why diversity matters in the choice of literature and authors that students read. “You look at this country and you look at this world and you need to understand it in complex ways,” Diaz said, citing...
Read moreRestorative Justice Practices and Discipline Reform in NY Public Schools
Reducing suspensions is important but maintaining safe and orderly schools is essential. Schools shouldn’t have to choose between the two. However, without good, objective data it’s hard to know if the reductions in suspensions that...
Read moreSmall Steps to Integration in New York Schools
De Blasio inherited a segregated school system where poor kids in the poorest neighborhoods were largely relegated to under-resourced schools. Despite his pledge to focus on reducing inequality, he’s done very little to address this issue...
Read moreHow a single-sex school in East Harlem offered young women a path out of poverty
As we continue to identify ways to break down barriers to opportunity and close the college access gap, we can look to an education model that took shape twenty years ago with 56 girls in East Harlem. When the seventh-graders walked through the...
Read moreThe Wrongheaded Treatment of Psychosis
Psychosis is a “biological defect of one’s brain that usually lasts a lifetime”. It is a mental disorder where thoughts and emotions are terribly impaired that often, an individual has lost their sense of reality. Those gripped...
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