Reductions in the number of black women who teach can never lead to the academic success of black children. The ability to hold on to black women in the teaching profession is an essential indicator of quality. The Albert Shanker Institute’s recent report on The State of Teacher Diversity in American Education essentially asserts that more […]
Andre Perry
Andre Perry is the founding dean of urban education at Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Mich. and the author of The Garden Path: The Miseducation of a City (2011).
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Arne Duncan’s Successor Must Make Sure to Partner with the Disenfranchised
Reform should be done with communities, not to them
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Cash Flow Alone Won’t Reverse the School to Prison Pipeline
Education Secretary could learn some lessons from Louisiana
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Another Black Face on a White Education Agenda Isn’t Needed — Justice Is
Protest leader, Rashad Turner, far right, leads dozens of protesters in a Black Lives Matter rally in the neighborhood around Governor’s Mansion in St. Paul, Minn. Photo: Richard Tsong-Taatarii /Star Tribune via AP Both the current education reform lobby and their progressive opponents feel a certain kinship with the Black Lives Matter movement. They even […]
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Schools Must Teach That Black Lives Matter
There is nothing wrong with black folk that ending racism can’t solve
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Are Gangs Killing Public Education?
In the education wars, you could say that the Bloods and Crips manifest themselves as reformers and progressives
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Blacks Can Wait for Gentrification to Improve Schools
Our fascination with inclusion is corrupted with the idea that whiter schools are better. Schools should get the resources they need whether middle class whites attend them or not. If we could only realize Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that “little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white […]
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Stop Saying “College Isn’t for Everyone”
Educating poor blacks may be Greek to most frats – but not to these brothers
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Why Big Business Should Stop Lecturing Schools on Motivation and Start Listening
Employees of Algiers Charter at the Kickoff 15 pep rally. Photo: Andre Perry Public school systems are so busy trying to emulate the business world they forget that educators can teach other sectors how to motivate employees. Schools are more like rap groups and teams than banks, and the art of motivating school employees should […]
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Education Reform is Working in New Orleans – Just Like White Privilege
Trenise Duvernay talks to Miracle Lee, left, and Danny Dinet, center, as she teaches fourth grade math class at the Alice M. Harte Charter School in New Orleans. Photo: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert Education reformers are not some monolithic group of privatizers, aiming to purchase the voices of black folk. Overwrought critiques of New Orleans education […]
