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Week 38: Quality Education – The Importance of Youth Activism
An incredible part of the African American Civil Rights journey is the important role that young activists have to play, activists that are younger than the age of 18.
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Week 33: Educational Equity – Part 2: Quality Schools
While education may not be a “fundamental right” under the Constitution, the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment requires that when a state establishes a public school system, no child living in that state…
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Week 32: Education Equity – Part One: Funding
During the 1950s, the Civil Rights Movement celebrated a milestone with the passage of Brown v. Board of Education which ruled segregated schools were unconstitutional for discriminating against students of color.
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Week 23: Quality Education: Teacher Preparedness
Think about it. There has been at least one teacher who greatly impacted your life, right? Most of us can recall our favorite teachers because of the way they positively motivated, encouraged and pushed us to reach our…
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Week 18: Rethinking Education
For decades, education advocates have called for reform in our country’s education system. Since the early 1980s, the challenge to rethink the model has been brewing, giving prominence to changes in the ecosystem of…
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Week 17: Undoing a Generation of Student Loan Debt
A recent article from Student Loan Hero revealed that the average 2016 college graduates are $37,172 in debt. With student loan debt well into the trillions, many new professional are victims of garnished wages and…
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Week 13: School Choice For Quality Education
Across the country, the new school year is quickly approaching. Every year, many parents have waded through the complex issue of school choice to enroll their children in the best schools possible.
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Week 7: Quality Education
Quality education has been a long established value in the civil rights movement. As early as the nineteenth century there have been cases of families challenging education inequity in their communities.