During this Black History Month let us celebrate Barbara Johns, who has been called the most successful American high school activist ever by Slate magazine and the Roanoke Times newspaper. And I agree with them. Who was Barbara Johns and what did she do specifically? I will use again words from a March 1, 2018, … [Read more…]
Earlier this month the American Sociological Association issued the following statement. The American Sociological Association (ASA) strongly supports scholars, teachers, and researchers who are committed to raising awareness about the impact of race and racism in American and global society. Unfortunately, many sociologists and sociology teachers are currently facing fear for their livelihoods and careers … [Read more…]
From one of my heroes, Diane Ravitch: Virginia: The Fraud Behind Glen Youngkin’s Attack on “Critical Race Theory by dianeravitch Glenn Youngkin, the Republican who won the race for governor in Virginia, centered his campaign on education, specifically on his insistence that parents should have the right to determine what their children learn and on his promise … [Read more…]
I had planned to write something about what I saw as some of the objectives of Bernie Sanders, but I decided to defer to the economist, Thomas Piketty, who said and demonstrated it quite simply, “Bernie Sanders is Trying to Rescue America’s Frail Democracy,” his article in the March 19, 2020, issue of Jacobin magazine. … [Read more…]
The Montgomery County Dialogue on Race (DOR) was the recipient of the 2019 Fitz Turner Award for Outstanding Contributions in Intergroup Relations by the Virginia Education Association (VEA). The award was presented at the Eleventh Annual Awards Dinner in Richmond in March. It recognized DOR for its efforts to bring about racial change in the … [Read more…]
The charter school movement—which takes money from public schools for profit—has gotten so strong it has caused Trump’s base to permit Muslim owned schools to multiply. Thus the Gulen school movement, named after a Turkish Islamic preacher who has lived in the United States since 1999 has spread to Alabama—to my home county. See the … [Read more…]