Education
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ASALH to Host Banned Book Readout
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will be hosting their “Banned Book Readout” in Jacksonville, FL on September 21, 2023 from 5:15-6:45 PM (EST). At this event, ASALH leaders, local, regional, and national activists, educators, legislators, and more will read excerpts from banned books. There will also be…
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Back to Learning About Education
The fight in politics and in the streets is now coming to a school near us with devastating results. Political trickery is greatly infecting (and often distorting) what takes place in the hallowed corridors of our schools. Too many educators are fighting conditions that interfere with basic schooling. Certain citizens now want to get…
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Back to School: Relearning Education
While much has been bandied about regarding education this past year, too much information is not just inaccurate, but highly misleading, even off the deep end. It is important for educators to set the record straight for the American public with correct information, even if sobering. The U.S. has been failing in educational achievement for…
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Schooling and Academic Loss During the Pandemic
We tend to forget that the major role schools play in the lives of children is enormous and most evident under crisis and when loss of schooling is evident. And this is not solely about back to basics. The COVID pandemic (2020-2021) underscored this reality in sobering ways. While we never expected closures to…
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America’s Standing in Global Education
With paralysis overwhelming our most cherished levels of government and confusion dominating social media, the level of disinformation has become alarmingly high and quite concerning. With such distraction in the background, it is hard to discern what is truly happening to society, let alone know where we rank on any measure of social skill…
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The Pandemic and Our Schools—Part Two
Shamefully for this country, the suggestion of universal masking guidelines from the CDC and vaccinations have merely led to virulent and toxic debates nationwide rather than introspection and consent. For public schools, this condition has already led to devastating results, as too many schools are struggling with the consequences of this diatribe. Astonishingly, this is occurring when research shows that effective mitigation strategies reduce the rates of virus transmission, yet many schools cannot get there due to policy. Stunning is also the fact that our…
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The Pandemic and Our Schools—Part One
Much has been said about the Covid pandemic and its impact nationwide, though its lessons continue to confound many citizens. It seems we would have learned already critical lessons from the pandemic after more than a year since the outbreak, but sadly this has not been the case. In the morass of misguidance and blatant pushback, the education of children continues to confront dire consequences, mired by politics. Seemingly, everything that matters in education…