By Crystal Coache Picture this: after hours of contractions, listening to the sound of multiple beeping heart monitors, the breathless he-he-whhhhooooo’s, and constant poking and prodding from nurses, you finally give birth and your doctor looks up at you and says, “Congratulations! You’ve just been babied!” Actually, you don’t need to use your imagination. Recently, […]
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This nonprofit is bringing Black teachers back to New Orleans
By Aaricka WashingtonWord in Black In the two decades since Hurricane Katrina drowned the city and its public school system, the story of K-12 education in New Orleans has gone something like this: nothing good happened until charter schools, and White reformers, showed up. But Adrinda Kelly, a New Orleans native, knows that’s not the […]
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Making teaching sustainable for more Black men like me
#education By Cedric Jones, Word In Black I remember sitting in a small classroom in Barrows Hall at U.C. Berkeley when I learned of my acceptance into Teach For America, a national education nonprofit that supports public school systems by sourcing talent to lead as anti-racist educators within the classroom. Then — as is the […]