A teacher explains the Trump effect and how to defeat it after Election Day
A teacher explains the Trump effect and how to defeat it after Election Day
*This is good, worth you time investment. It’s an account of facing Trumpism is the trenches, in the public schools. VL By Ray Salazer, The White Rhino (7.5 minute read) […]
Election’s Intolerant Tone Stokes Fears for Latino Students
*Two-thousand teachers were polled about how the presidential campaign had affected schools. More than 66 percent of them said that students—mainly immigrants, children of immigrants, and Muslims— were concerned or […]
Chicago Public Schools students reveal resilience
*My pick for lunch break read of the day. Chicago teacher Ray Salazar shares some of his students’ inspiring personal essays. VL By Ray Salazar, The White Rhino (1 minute read, […]
Stop expecting academia to love you
*Ray Salazar says the professor needs to apologize to Tiffany Martinez, but she should apologize to hersellf as well for not “recognizing their academic self-worth.” Think he’s right? VL By […]
California Voters Support Bi-lingual Ed, But Schools Not Prepared
*They voted to do away with bilingual education in 1998, now they want it back. VL By Jeremy Adam Smith, New America Media (6.5 minute read) SAN FRANCISCO — In 1998, California […]
Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them—and that’s a big problem
*Most Latino students are urban students and “teachers who share a linguistic and cultural background with their students have a unique role to play in urban schools.” VL By Timothy Pratt, […]
When These Latinos Tell Immigration Stories, They Push Beyond Fairy Tales
*This is good stuff to read. Real stories told with real, raw truth. VL By Leah Donnella, NPR Code Switch (7 minute read) It’s easy to believe in a definitive […]
Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she thought about hitting Antonin Scalia with baseball bat
*Justice Sotomayor: “If we’ve lost anything, it’s remembering that differences don’t stand, necessarily, on ill will. If you keep that in mind, you can resolve almost any issue, because you can […]
Closed Doors: Black and Latino Students Are Excluded from Top Public Universities
By Elizabeth Baylor, Center for American Progress (12.5 minute read) In the fall of 2014, 297,000 African American and Latino students enrolled in America’s top public research universities. While access […]
The forgotten history of how Latinos earned the right to vote
*The battles for equal educational rights for Latinos go back many, many generations. And many of those historic battles started in Texas. This is a good read for perspective, context, […]
