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Chicago Public Schools students judge Mayor Emanuel’s Laquan McDonald speech
*Ray Salazar, Chicago High School English teacher and frequent NewsTaco contributor, took the event of the Laquan McDonald shooting and turned it into a writing and judgement lesson. He gives […]
What my 10-year-old son will learn about justice from Laquan McDonald’s murder
*The police shooing of Laquan McDonald in Chicago last year happened blocks from where Ray Salazar teaches, a stone’s throw from where he worked as a teenager. He wathced the video […]
Good reasons teachers stay in a challenging, unhappy profession
*Ray Salazar does here what he does best: challenge us to think differently about something we think in rote, prescribed ways. So, what makes a happy teacher? This is good reading. […]
What student’s suspension over clock reveals about teachers and students
*There are many opinions as to how the Irving, Texas student clock incident could have been handled differently. Chicago teacher Ray Salazar tells us that good teachers get to know […]
4 truths Trump supporters need to remember
*I simple, says Ray Salazar. What we need to remember about Donald Trump is the stuff we learned at home, the things we know because we learned them from our […]
A eulogy for my uncle, a mariachi
By Ray Salazar, The White Rhino Today, we lay my uncle Ruben H. Vázquez to rest. This is the eulogy I prepared to honor his life. It would be unfair […]
Why hiring more Latino teachers is not the solution
*Ray Salazar makes a good point – while having Latino teachers for Latino students is needed, what’s more important is how good the teacher is. VL By Ray Salazar, The […]
Why Chicago Public Schools CEOs fail at being transformational leaders
*Ray Salazar writes from a Chicago point of view, but how many school districts across the country have a similar leadership crisis, and how does this affect Latino kids who […]
Chicago Public Schools valedictorian victimized by Chicago police
*There are many reasons I decided to publish this. It’s heart-breaking and real; it happens too often to young men of color; what we read about it is what’s written […]
What a Chicago Public Schools Latino valedictorian learned from his first job
*Ray Salazar is a good English teacher. So much so that he promotes his students’ work through his channels outside his Southwest Chicago classroom. He says he’s especially proud of […]