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Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.
In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy.
Building public trust requires far more than the conveyance of facts and instruction in scientific thinking.
“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.
Laws controlling what schools teach about race and gender show an awareness that classrooms are sites of nation-building. During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.
The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this as fine?
Education is not inherently liberatory: it has always been an arena for broader struggles over who has access to knowledge and to what ends learning is put.
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