Social Justice

Transcensory Education: Expanding our Understanding of Intelligence

Dialogue with Doctors Raquel Ríos and Shiv D. Talwar Dr. Shiv Talwar retired early from his career of teaching Civil Engineering to follow up on his early dream of doing “something” so that the identity savagery the like of which he experienced in India in 1947 becomes a thing of the past. Consequently, he helped […]

Building Authentic Relationships: Transcending Race, Class & Gender

Dialogue with Dr. Alice E. Ginsberg & Dr. Raquel Rios Alice E. Ginsberg, Ph.D. is the author of Gender in Urban Education: Strategies for Student Achievement (2005) and Gender and Educational Philanthropy (2007) and is currently an independent education consultant. Raquel Rios, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of Real World Professional Development, a communications and […]

Transcending Great Expectations

Many years ago while attending a prestigious prep school, I was part of a track team. I considered myself a sprinter then and I don’t recall if a coach gave me that label after observing my performance or if I had volunteered to take on that role. In retrospect, I find this small detail important […]

Back to School Blue: A Word on Belonging

It is the month of school, the time when families from all over come together to deposit their most precious beings into the hands of others, who for some reason or another have found themselves in the business of educating. It is the time when teachers and administrators rub elbows, pull up sleeves and invest […]

Balance

I look around and I see the torrential rains pounding against the trees, the muddy cars and streets, the aggressive and inappropriate police, the underground railroad bloodied by sweat and overworked civic servants, the endless rows of malls and stores that continue to push ahead time by precipitously changing the stock of clothes from season […]

Field of Dreams

The only way to find freedom is by offering it to someone else. Our destiny unfolds in someone else’s dream. This is not a sacrifice but rather it is our reality. Do not understand this wrongly. This does not mean you disappear in someone else’s shadow. Nor does this mean you give up your own […]

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