In a major labor victory, the Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement with Chicago Public Schools Monday night that reaffirms sanctuary school protections, protects the ability to teach Black history, and gives veteran teachers a raise.
“This is a way to defund Black people as a whole," retired federal worker Janice Lee said, referring to the layoffs of black government workers.
Righting Old Wrongs. How science is shedding a colonial legacy.
The right has compiled a glossary of words like “abolition” and “equity” that it deems suspect in classroom contexts.
Despite the raised awareness around the issue of reparations, the political will to enact a federal plan is currently lacking.
An activist, community organizer, school leader, novelist, and academic, Fruchter was on the front lines of some of the most pivotal social and educational battles of the past half century in the five boroughs and his native New Jersey.
We are leading Nature on a journey to help decolonize research and forge a path towards restorative justice and reconciliation.
We wanted Harold. We had Harold. We still miss him.
For decades anthropologists exploited Indigenous peoples in the name of science. Now they are reckoning with that history
The goal isn’t merely eliminating barriers to ascending the strata, but rather flattening the hierarchy altogether. If “equity” is to be a worthwhile word, it will have to mean de-stratifying the systems that impose sexist and racist hierarchies.
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