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Coalitions: Towards Real Inter-Cultural Understanding

Frank Wu (2002) introduced me to the work of Yale professor Harold Hongju Koh in his provocative and insightful book, “Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White.” This lawyer, I learned represented thousands of Haitian refugees in testing the legality of government policies in the early nineties. In understanding this lawyer’s journey, Wu writes […]

Character Education vs Social Justice Pedagogy

The “Six Pillars of Character” identified as trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship (Traub, 2005) are interpreted in a variety of different education programs – some of which also include other “virtues” such as, criticism, creativity, curiosity, concentration, communication, correction and control (The Seven C’s of Thinking Clearly by Integrity Matters). In sum, schools […]

Breaking and Entering

So, I’m standing outside in a school parking lot freezing as the snow flurries dance around me to the whirl of the wind home only to Michigan or maybe Chicago in the dead of winter. My hands are red and chapped and I can’t go inside because I am keeping four men company as they […]

Students Walk Out

dedicated to Mrs. Swanson As I marched the two miles amongst thousands of protesters with a green and black poster in my hands and a sore throat from chanting, I felt all at once the thrill of humanity reminiscent of a time when I was encouraged to reach out and touch history. Next to me, […]

The Rainbow Fish

How humble am I? How much do I give? How can I help others while all the while realizing the potential of my gifts? How should I honor my position of privilege, knowing that by luck, by fate, by birth I have more shining scales than others? Standing inside, in front of, behind the abandoned […]

Invitations to Resistance… On Kozol’s The Shame of the Nation

On an airplane ride across the country, I wiped the tears as I read, highlighted and marked significant pages in Kozol’s new book, The Shame of the Nation. Often, I had to stop, grab my mouth, cover my nose in an attempt to hold back a more noticeable emotional response – I was, of course, […]

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