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My Student Asked Me If I Was Racist So I Told the Truth and Said Yes
Teacher Zachary Wright explains his answer to his student. A lesson for everyone. Read his article by clicking here.
Read MoreJulie Washington’s Quest to Get Schools to Respect African-American English
In his article in the Atlantic, William Brennan describes the efforts of speech pathologist Julie Washington to have schools implement code-switching between the dialect of African American English and standard English in teaching reading and in closing the black-white literacy…
Read MoreHow Do You Teach Slavery?
1a radio program host Joshua Johnson and his guests Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Chair of the Teaching Hard History Advisory Board and associate professor of history at Ohio State University, Adam Sanchez, high school history teacher, editor of “Rethinking Schools” magazine…
Read MoreHistory class should be the last place where we stop talking about race
Noting the complaint that “appears at least once on my students’ course evaluations: ‘too much time on race’ ” every time he teaches American history, Donald Earl Collins adds, “A small but persistent minority of my students seem to want…
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