The coronavirus pandemic is a worldwide catastrophe that, as of this writing, is still developing in ways most of which are impossible to predict. However, we can begin to anticipate...
https://dropoutnation.net/2020/08/18/americas-genocide-against-black-people-pandemic-edition/
Wisdom, and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on...
https://dropoutnation.net/2020/01/10/new-yorks-jim-crow-schools-2/
Based simply on how it miseducates Black and Latino children, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in America, is even more racist in its outcomes...
https://dropoutnation.net/2019/09/11/l-a-unifieds-mathematical-apartheid/
Beyond the presence of former Gov. Nikki Haley and the BMW plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina has always been an unusual state. Yet its racial caste system – and how...
https://dropoutnation.net/2019/08/12/low-country-for-black-children/
Generally speaking, the largest group of least advantaged children in the United States, those most in need of protection, are the impoverished descendants of enslaved Africans. We might then ask...
https://dropoutnation.net/2018/09/25/what-scott-walker-hath-wrought/
Certainly Washington, D.C., is at the center of a rapidly growing metropolitan area. But the Nation’s Capital is itself a relatively small city. Just 680,000 live within the heart of...
https://dropoutnation.net/2018/06/15/d-c-s-school-problem-for-black-kids/
For those of us who live in a rational, data-based world, it can no longer be argued that school discipline disparities can be attributed to the fictitious oddities of “the...
https://dropoutnation.net/2018/05/03/its-up-to-you-new-york/
The Duval County school district serves the Jacksonville, Florida, area. Jacksonville is much more typical of neighboring Georgia than of Florida. It has a relatively small Hispanic populatio...
https://dropoutnation.net/2018/04/24/the-black-kids-are-shortchanged-everywhere/
If you want to get a better sense of the shoddiness of the arguments of opponents of school discipline reform, especially when it comes to the Department of Education’s guidance...
https://dropoutnation.net/2018/03/20/when-congressmen-lie-about-school-discipline-reform/
Recent scandals in places like Washington, D.C. have prompted debates over high school graduation requirements. Many observers rightfully express concern that students who are unprepared for the ...
https://dropoutnation.net/2018/03/19/beyond-graduation-rate-scandals/