In Honor of the Day of the Heroic Guerilla

The Day of the Heroic Guerrilla is a day to celebrate the mere fact that Che will forever be a warrior of the present time. His example and ideas are timeless.  His conduct and consciousness will always be

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CONVOCATORIA CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL PEDAGOGÍA 2017 LA HABANA, CUBA

PEDAGOGY 2017“An Encounter for Unity among Educators”30 January to 3 February 2017The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cuba and the Havana Convention Center are pleased to invite you to participate in Pedagogy 2017 on the occasion of

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Freedom Center Students on Intensive Voter Engagement Campaign

Bakersfield, California

I write with an update. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Center has mobilized 29 high school students and 6 college interns, and we are in Kern County, California for the month of July. The team is

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Please consider: Institute for Ethics and Voter Engagement

Dear Friends: (Espanol localizado abajo) I am reaching out to you to let you know we will be hosting the Institute for Education with Ethics and Voter Engagement, July 1 to August 2, 2016 focusing on the urgency of

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Teaching in Material Context

In spite of well researched inequities in the U.S., many educators work without an understanding of the material conditions that perpetuate these inequities. Disproportionalities based on race and low socio-economic standing are often the silent giant in classrooms and

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Live Stream Presentation SAT, FEB 27, 7pm PST

Colleagues: I warmly invite you to join us tomorrow, Saturday, February 27, at 7pm Pacific Time (10pm East Coast Time), to see our production of Bobby Seale, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. We

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The nonviolent educator

Violence and nonviolence are two tools to use in problem solving in education. Both are based on the understanding that conflict is natural and it is inevitable. In practice, both involve certain virtues such as discipline, courage, loyalty, and

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Personal digital devices and the work of segregation

In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King addressed fellow clergy on the evil of segregation. “All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality…. Segregation, to use the terminology of the

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Develop your own educational philosophy

An idea represents particular economic, political, and social forces. The most important forces are class and race; however every idea also has its origin in other “groups” or sectors as well. Thus, an idea also projects the interests and

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Public Education: From a factory model of producing products to an algorithm model

What is the purpose of public education? Is it for the development of the individual? Is it for the development of society? All educators should study their own ideas and assumptions, and those of others, regarding the purpose and

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