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As California Goes: States Will Experience Growing Pains Without Affirmative Action

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on EdSource. Now that the Supreme Court has decided to end affirmative action in college applications, campuses across the nation must learn from both the...

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The Supreme Court on Affirmative Action: Who Will You Blame Now?

It was 2001, and I was a freshman at Purdue University majoring in English education. I was walking on campus with a group of white female “friends.” One of the women started complaining about how...

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Anti-Racist Education: When Things Hit the Fan, Are you Still a Fan?

It has been three years since George Floyd was murdered. Three years since we demanded educators teach differently due to what we witnessed in the summer of 2020. Three years since schools started to...

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Anti-Racist Education: The N-Word is Not a Word for School

Editor’s Note: This article contains a racist term quoted in a poem. As a Black educator, every year, and I mean every single year, I am asked by a teacher, usually racially white, what they should...

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Black Male Teachers Were My Father Figures. They Changed My Life, and We Need More of Them

With the spring semester upon us, districts across the nation are still struggling with teacher shortages. In New Jersey, it’s a crisis that is making it harder to hire and retain Black and Latino...

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AAPI Heritage Month 2023: Cross-Racial Coalitions Provide Blueprint for Support

Almost 30 years ago at the University of California, San Diego, the late Chicana feminist and activist Elizabeth Martinez coined the term Oppression Olympics during a discussion with Angela Davis...

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