Public Schools Play a Huge Role in Decreasing Food Insecurity
Low-income, public school students shouldn't have to go hungry simply because they have less money than others. Last week, the New York City Department of Education announced that it will provide free lunch and breakfast to all 1.1 million public school
Why Ethnic Studies is Crucial to Public Education
Prioritizing Ethnic Studies in our education curriculum is an essential step toward decolonizing and rectifying an education system that for too long has refused to serve the needs of people of color.
Next year is the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Third World Liberation Front Strikes, the longest-running student-led strikes in the history of the United States. These strikes, which were begun by working class students of color at San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley,, marked the first time that BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) students demanded an education that actually reflected their own histories–as told from their own perspectives. Before this time, few if any schools offered courses that featured the histories and cultures of BIPOC in the United States. If BIPOC people or histories were mentioned at all, they were usually taught from the perspective of a mainstream, Eurocentric curriculum–meaning that BIPOC were mentioned as an aside, or as marginal characters in a larger historical narrative that centered on white people and their histories. For much of U.S. history, for example, basic knowledge of Greek and Latin was a general admissions requirement at major universities–a blatant example of racist policies at work in the public education system that explicitly worked to the disadvantage of students of color. Explicitly or implicitly, women and students of color were also barred from entering the university at all.Related: SEX EDUCATION CENTERS WHITENESS — AND IT’S A PROBLEM
Dear Virgie: How Do I Create A Body Positive Classroom?
Figure out a way to create a body positive environment within your personal limits and which center methods that excite and nourish you. Dear Virgie, I am an elementary school teacher. Recently, there has been some teasing around weight that happened in
10 Things I Wish My White Teacher Knew
by Joy Mohammed If you think that race does not have an impact on the way that an educator teaches school children, please come on in and take a seat. I, a black student, owe a lot of my academic intelligence