by lindaoppenheim | Nov 25, 2017 | Video
“Rosenwald,” by Aviva Kempner, is a documentary about how Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the son of an immigrant peddler who rose to head Sears, partnered with Booker T. Washington to build 5,400 Southern schools in African American communities...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 16, 2017 | Article
“Nikole Hannah-Jones was named a 2017 MacArthur fellow on Wednesday, one of 24 recipients worldwide. The MacArthur board recognized Hannah-Jones, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, for ‘chronicling the persistence of racial segregation in...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 2, 2017 | Opinion
Having made the decision to send her children to a private rather than public school, white parent Shannon Cofrin Gaggero details how she began to engage her children’s school around issues of race, class and equity, including using the Action Kit for Talking...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 6, 2017 | Events
The College of New Jersey is hosting Dr. Robin DiAngelo , who will be presenting a lecture on campus on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 12:30 p.m. in the Mayo Concert Hall. She will be discussing key concepts in social justice, and tools for creating equity in the...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 10, 2016 | Article
In this New York Times article, Susan Dynarski describes how a new screening system identified significantly more gifted black and Hispanic children than occurred when schools relied on teacher and parent referrals.