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It’s important to me to make some suggestions to improve our kids’ educational experience. From a developmental perspective, the first and most important suggestion is for educators, administrators, and parents to realize that education is a systemic endeavor. This system… Continue Reading →
It’s not easy to talk about unhealthy behaviors. Sometimes, though, difficult conversations are necessary in order to find health within a situation. But, before those conversations occur, I believe we should be sure of what we see. Take a tree… Continue Reading →
White America isn’t about ethnicity or race or economics. It’s about power. White America doesn’t gangs or guns or drugs. I believe, wholeheartedly, that White America fears people of repressed circumstances learning enough to become individually or collectively strong. Through… Continue Reading →
I read an article in my hometown newspaper that said something about the mayoral candidates caring about education, even though they don’t have direct authority over the school district. The person who wrote the article made the comment as though… Continue Reading →
All members of an educational setting: student, teacher, principal, and parent, must all be working towards the same goal. If not, there is a pathological condition within the system. For example: If a principal’s main concern is with overall test… Continue Reading →
An oppressive leader or teacher will have as his followers or students people who believe that life is a living death. When a person does not see life as a mission to fulfill, “he or she is a person who… Continue Reading →
There was a time when I had no real answer for the question, “What is the purpose of education?” THe answer seemed to me to be both obvious and circular: The role of education was to educate students. However, I… Continue Reading →
Very few books have real power. Very few books can transform a reader. Very few books can transform an educational system. Joan Wink’s, Critical Pedagogy, Notes from the Real World, is one of those very few books. Critical Pedagogy utilizes… Continue Reading →
Jose Marti was a revolutionary who was ahead of his time. He said: “The prideful villager thinks his hometown contains the whole world and as long as he can stay on as mayor or humiliate the rival who stole his… Continue Reading →
A friend of mine once asked me, “What motivates you as a writer?” I thought about truth and strength and beauty. But, when my mouth opened, I said, “What motivates my writing the most, by far, is anger.” And it… Continue Reading →
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