My friend who recently completed STEP (Stanford Teacher Education Program) and now teaches math in an SF public school shared this link on facebook: The NCTM Equity Pedagogy Research Brief. I enjoyed reading it and felt like converting it to a format that I’d find easier to reference later. Why not share it? Please note that…
I’ll start by calmly saying I’m in a rage. Here’s the story: Someone I went to high school with, Caitlin Fair, has been doing amazing work as a white ally in the Trenton, NJ area. Below, you can see her in an “I’m sorry…what?” moment during a spoken word piece, a “dear white people” of sorts.…
My sister sent me some texts today. They went like this: “Treat your body like it belongs to someone you love” -terribly worded marketing campaign by whole foods UGH Obviously those words are printed over an image of a woman This is the offensive image in question: To me, the subliminal messages matter more than…
[This is a continuation of the previous post, in which I comment on Richard V. Reeves’ and Isabel V. Sawhill’s paper, “Equality of Opportunity: Definitions, Trends, and Interventions,” which was presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s annual conference this month.] Children who go on to achieve a college degree, irrespective of their parents’ income,…
Reporter Matt O’Brien (Washington Post persona here, Twitter persona here) wrote a little blog post article on October 18 entitled, “Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong.” In it, he offers some interesting, well-cited information to corroborate the below graph/infographic. For example, he mentions how high-income parents spend more…
Caleb is a friend of my sister’s from high school and he came to see me performing in a furry vest with bones hanging off of it at a Björk-themed dance party in Williamsburg in 2011, so I feel no shame in promoting his project. Anyway, it ties together a couple child themes of the…
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