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Pure Bronx, Naison & Castillo-Garsow (F, 30s, brown hair in bun, floral-pattern blouse, glasses, A train)

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Haiku, Personalized Learning

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/03/11/professor-why-i-am-incredibly-pessimistic-about-the-future-of-public-education/

“Don’t let your schools and – lifetime teachers get outsourced – by corporate greed”

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[fordhaminthenews]

Fordham’s Mark Naison, a professor of African American history, recently hosted hip hop artists, Gangway Beatz Berlin, in his “Rock and Roll to Hip Hop” class.

[fordhaminthenews]

Mark Naison, a professor of history and African-American studies at Fordham University, says some whites are angry because their portion of the country's population is shrinking. As the country gets browner, they get angrier.

"They think this is their country, and they're really special," Naison says. "These tensions are going to get worse. We're stumbling toward being a more multiracial society with everyone's culture respected and everyone having a shot at leadership."

Naison says he's not surprised by the surge in racial tension. He saw signs of it while campaigning for Obama in 2008.

"I'm never surprised at the depth of racism in America," he says. "The depths of it are limitless. There is a well you can dig into if you are white that justifies almost any level of abuse that you can direct at a black person that challenges your comfort zone."

Read the full article at CNN.

[fordhaminthenews]

Fordham’s Mark Naison, a professor of African American History, is quoted in an article on CNN.com:

The mix of "simmering rage" and growing empathy is a complicated equation, he says, that adds up to more people talking about race -- and racism.

And it's a conversation, according to Naison, that isn't going away any time soon. If people from different backgrounds can open up about their concerns and find common ground, it could be a good thing, Naison says, like a therapy session on a national scale.

"That conversation is difficult," he says. "But our history is difficult. Our present is difficult. We need to talk about it."

Read it here: http://cnn.it/1MzY5dv

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...these so called 'failing schools' have all had rich histories, some of them close to a hundred years in the making, which involve themes ranging from migration and immigration, to musical creativity, to changing economies and neighborhoods, which live in the experience of alumni as well as documents the schools themselves have preserved. Closing the schools not only shatters the possibility of drawing upon that rich cultural capital, it sends a message to students that nothing in the past is that important, including their own families and cultural traditions, treating them as clay to be molded by people who see the past—at least for people like them—only as failure.

Author/professor Mark Naison

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"Already, third graders have to go through six days of testing, 90 minutes a day, in English language arts and math. Now they want them to take tests in music, art and physical education as well. Can't we let our children create and let their imaginations and bodies run free without constantly subjecting them, and their teachers, to testing?”

Mark Naison, a professor at Fordham University. 

Looks like NYC principals are getting more power to oust bad teachers. But could that mean more testing involvement? 

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Why Teach For America Is Not Welcome in My Classroom

http://www.laprogressive.com/teach-america/

curious as to people's responses... 

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