Denisha Jones: The Day Joe Biden Lied to Me About Standardized Testing
Denisha Jones explains here what happened at a televised event in Pittsburgh when she asked candidate Joe Biden if he would eliminate standardized testing. Denisha...
Category : Racism
Steve Hinnefeld: Black Legislators in Indiana Were Right to Talk about Race
Veteran blogger Steve Hinnefeld writes about education in Indiana. In this post, he describes a controversy in the Legislature about whether a portion of a...
Al Franken on Rush Limbaugh’s Squalid Legacy
Al Franken is the former Senator from Minnesota. He wrote this retrospective on Rush Limbaugh in the New York Daily News. Rush Limbaugh died this...
Join Me Wednesday to Learn the Inside Story of the New Orleans “Coup D’Etat”
On Wednesday February 10, I will host a Zoom discussion with Raynard Sanders about his new book, The Coup D’état of the New Orleans Public...
North Carolina Adopts New Social Studies Curriculum, Despite Opposition of Black Lieutenant Governor
North Carolina adopted a new social studies curriculum, despite the efforts of the newly elected Lieutenant Governor to remove any references to “systemic racism.” (CNN)The...
Oh, No! The Culture Wars Are Back (If They Ever Left)!
Back in the 1980s, the culture wars were at full pitch, with ethnic groups competing with one another for time and space in the social...
Commonweal: What the Insurrection Was Really About
Clifford Thompson writes in the liberal Catholic journal Commonweal that that ostensible reason for the Insurrection on January 6 was anger that Biden “stole” the...
New York Review of Books: “The Dark History of School Choice”
I reviewed three books in the New York Review of Books, which seemed to me to be complementary. Together they offer a fresh interpretation of...
Michigan: Former Governor Snyder Charged for “Willful Neglect of Duty” in Flint Water Case
Prosecutors charged former Governor Rick Snyder for “willful neglect of duty” for his role in the Flint water crisis, which led to death and poisoning...