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Showing posts with label race and ethnicity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label race and ethnicity. Show all posts
Sunday, January 4, 2015

Louisiana Lesson #1: Plessy v Ferguson

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I spent part of my winter break in New Orleans. And during a cemetery tour, I saw the grave of Homer Plessy. Plessy, as in the famous ...
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Sunday, February 23, 2014

W.E.B Du Bois: Of The Color Line, the Class Line, and a Boyhood in Western Massachusetts

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Photo by Ruth Kraut, 2010 To close out Black History Month,* I thought I'd share some thoughts I had about a visit I made a few sum...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Interesting Meeting Choices Monday Night 2/25/13

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Ypsilanti/Willow Run residents: So you know, based on my previous posts [ here , and here ] that the Ypsilanti/Willow Run school board (...
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Friday, September 14, 2012

Showing Real Promise

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There's an excellent story in the New York Times about the Kalamazoo Promise. It's a nice overview, and it raises some interesting ...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Roberto Clemente: It Starts When You Care to Act

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By now you have probably heard that Roberto Clemente will stay open for (at least) another year. Over the next year the board will thoroughl...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Dreaming of Desegregation, Elections, and Barbers

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Two weeks ago I was at the 20th anniversary event for the Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan . The evening included a showing of t...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Reprise: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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Astute readers of this blog will know that I've already written, at length, about the book that I bought my youngest son a couple of yea...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Racial Disparities in Special Education

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If you are a parent in the Ann Arbor Public Schools, last week you got a letter that was nearly unintelligible. You might have wondered wh...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Pass this jobs bill and...

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. . . hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged young people will have the hope and dignity of a summer job next year.   (President Obama...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Whatever Happened?

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To the state budget? The House votes tomorrow; the Senate voted today. You'll find more information at mipfs.org . This rolls back fundi...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Warmth of Other Suns

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For my book group I'm reading Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns . It's the story of the Great Migration of black famil...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Disintegration

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word - Disintegration www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

It's Not a Black and White Question

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According to the New York Times' Caucus Blog of 1/16/2011, the Children's Defense Fund has found the following: Four in 10 black ...
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Reprise: MLK Day

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What do you do with your kids on MLK Day? (Last year's post, but it is still relevant.) As I said, I have wanted the Michigan Theater...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Events This Week! SISS, Physicals

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The Black Parents Association and the NAACP (I believe) are sponsoring a reception for the incoming SISS Director. (That is the person in ch...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Dog Days of August

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Why are they called dog days? I have no idea--I thought maybe because of the idea that dogs lie around and don't do anything? In any c...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

This Week: Bullying and Safety Meetings

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Monday, 5/17/10: The Saline School District is having a meeting to discuss safety, racism, and bullying--6:30 p.m. Pleasant Ridge Elementar...
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Saturday, May 8, 2010

The Wisdom of a Three-Year Old

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When my oldest was three, some dear friends of ours (graduate students) were moving out of town. We had a goodbye picnic at Gallup Park. The...
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Race/ism & Disparities

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Just a few days apart, two thought-provoking articles show up in Annarbor.com. In the first article, Simone Lightfoot--relatively new AAPS s...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Conference: Educational Inequalities in Michigan

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This looks interesting...from my email inbox. EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY: AN INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES IN MICHIGAN The Jack L. Walker Confe...