Uptown Notes

Sixty four schools will likely close in Philadelphia. New York is aiming at closing forty seven schools this year, down from […]

If you watch the news, listen to friends, or click on links you’d think the only thing Black males have […]

About two years ago I sat down for a conversation with TheGrio.com discussing the role of discrimination and testing in […]

Recently, I had the pleasure of appearing on “Our World with Black Enterprise” hosted by Marc Lamont Hill. The show […]

The recent buzz around education reform is growing, but silenced in this buzz is race. The amazingly taboo yet significant social phenomena is giving way to colorblind policy makers and educational activists. Can we truly transform an educational system if we don’t take account of one of its most enduring cleavages?

For the past few years, I have been diligently working on issues of inequality in well-resourced school settings. My book […]

This morning, another piece of my writing on education reform and “Waiting for Superman” was posted on theRoot.com. This is […]

This week “Waiting for Superman” premiered nationally and it has reignited the conversation on the United States’ failing schools. The […]

Nationwide, the conversation on education is increasingly dominated by teacher accountability, charter schools and test scores. While these things are […]

Yesterday the NYTimes ran an interesting Op-Ed piece on Charter Schools by Charles Murray entitled, “Why Charter Schools Fail the Test.” I read through it quickly and thought it to be arguing two main things: standardized tests were weak measures and that school choice was a democratic right. Sounds agreeable, right? But why was this written by Charles Murray author of the thinly veiled racist polemic The Bell Curve?