Andre Perry

Within days, announcements of corruption and malfeasance between New Orleans’s rivaling charter and traditional school systems proved that immorality and incompetence is agnostic toward school type. Whether in a traditional district or a charter school, tainted people always make systems look bad. On March 3, The Louisiana Department of Education cited Lagniappe Academies for failing […]

What behaviors make for an ideal father when the nuclear family has been blown up like the Cosby Show? Fathering as a practice has never been tethered to a household or marriage, especially for the sons of slavery and Jim Crow. Most black children – 72 percent – are born out of wedlock. And although […]

A new national collaborative explicitly aimed at improving outcomes for boys and men of color pivots from the current narrative and focuses on institutions that reduce the quality of life of black and brown men. Rise (Research, Integration, Strategy and Evaluation) will “identify best practices and opportunities for new research that can inform equitable policies, […]

A little less conversation, a little more action will prove black and brown minds matter

The dangerous premise that kids are at fault when it’s really the system

When using SATs, ACTs to forecast student success is too rigid a strategy

The experts weigh in on Lewis’s near and long-term priorities

Waving flags and pens won’t unify a country like public schools can. If you want more patriotic citizens, then demand the integration of public schools. Protect the country from inside the schoolhouse out. This month’s attacks in Paris were both unpredictable and expected. Harder to defuse, lone-wolf terrorist plots continue to sprout abroad and in […]

They say, “A mother’s work is never done.” Depressingly, the work referenced in this motto can be that of social justice. As new leadership emerges in highflying cases of injustice, mothers of slain unarmed black men and boys have become primary teachers of the prevention of racial bias and discrimination. The mothers of Trayvon Martin, […]

I’ll never forget the moments after my grandfather proudly dropped me off at Allegheny College in 1989, and I became one of the first in my family to attend college. We stood by his 1987 Honda Accord as he gave me the classic “You’re an adult in college now,” speech. After Grandpa lectured me about […]