Archive for April, 2006
Routing Racism
I returned today from a long weekend in Virginia. There was a surprise party for my dad’s 80th birthday, and I flew 8000 miles for a trip that lasted less than 100 hours. It works out to an 80 mph weekend, on average. It’s tough attending family gatherings from so far away, but this [...]
The Privilege Walk
I recently completed a course called Race and Healing, and I’ve come away from the experience more bothered and even more convinced that education policies driven by standards and accountability will further marginalize and disempower people who are already deprived of full equity and justice in our society. (See Confronting Racism in Literacy Education and [...]
Links in the Chain
BlogPrologue: This post is an experiment in readability.
I’m using a new copy of ecto to compose this because ecto has some slick editing shortcuts for adding HTML tags. I decided to do this after I visited the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vickie Davis, and saw how she uses typography in her design. Her blog [...]
