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Making a student feel bad in class is no trivial matter. Research clearly shows that unless a student feels safe in a classroom environment, they will not be willing to take risks for fear of reprisal. If students don’t feel comfortable exploring ideas in class, cognition suffers. Which is to say, learning outcomes are diminished.
Read MoreThis GWM writes with a nostalgia for the charter school “reform coalition” movement that is as dangerous as it is factually incorrect (again, if only we actually taught CRT in schools).
Read MoreI discuss James Baldwin’s words as a balm for writer’s burnout, what we do when we feel our activism has made no progress towards meaningful change, and worse, when things seem to be back sliding back into the racist and sexist dark ages.
Read More“I spent most of my life trying to curtail my anger, my loudness, and most of all, the assertiveness with which I express myself.” Dr. Allison Harbin gives excerpts from a phone call with her landlord as a reflection on anger, and its use as an assertion of rights and worth as declared by Chemlay. In this Not Safe for School (NSFS) newsletter, she discusses expendable labor, adjuncts, and white saviorism.
Read MoreI'm starting to think that rage may be our last hope for educational equity and reparations. About women's rage and neoliberalism. Dr. Allison Harbin wraps up her slum lord story and what it taught her about women's rage. She discusses rage being an avenue for educational equity.
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