Joanne JacobsOct 24, 20171 minWhite teachers expect less of black studentsWhite teachers’ low expectations for their black students could become “self-fulfilling prophecies,” concludes an analysis published in...
Joanne JacobsOct 24, 20172 minProf: Math ‘operates as Whiteness’A free online class on integrating social justice into high school math has been revised to focus on “social issues,” reports Toni...
Joanne JacobsOct 15, 20171 minBiloxi pulls ‘Mockingbird’ for use of ‘n-word’Biloxi (MS) eighth-graders won’t read To Kill a Mockingbird because someone complained, said Kenny Holloway, vice president of the school...
Joanne JacobsOct 11, 20171 minNeeded: black male teachers“Low-income black students who have just one black teacher in grades 3-5 are more likely to graduate and consider college,” a recent...