Some days it feels we really can trace all that needs reconfiguring in education to Illinois, home of NCTE, the Chicago Ed Reformers, and our current Secretary of Education, not to mention the POTUS.
This news about an Illinois district near Ferguson banning discussion of recent events regarding the killing of Mike Brown won't alleviate that feeling.
Though, Paul L. Thomas, Associate Professor of Education at Furman and perhaps one of the best minds fighting for public education and speaking truth to power, will at least make you feel better-informed once you read how he contextualizes this error of judgement in Edwardsville, IL.
Click here to read his piece on the subject, which makes the point "Prohibiting students from talking about events in Ferguson offers them exactly the opposite of what they need."
AND eager for your help. Have a story of power, manipulation, self-interest or injustice which needs attention? Let me know and we'll let the world discover "what's that smell."
"If you're a profession of sheep, then you'll be run by wolves." -- David C. Berliner
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: Everything else is public relations." -- George Orwell
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- Paulo Freire
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