By Anthony Cody. Last July, I joined several hundred people for a Restorative Justice Circle in downtown Seattle, sponsored by the Badass Teachers Association. The event was a somber one, featuring heartfelt discussions of the impact of racism, and the commitments each of us were willing to make to take on racism …
By Anthony Cody. This particular teacher appreciation week we seem to be getting an especially hard sell on the virtues of John King, who left behind a state full of angry parents and teachers in New York in order to seize the reins of President Obama’s Department of Education, just as the administration …
By Anthony Cody. In San Francisco a recently implemented Ethnic Studies course has been startlingly successful in boosting student attendance, GPA, and earned credits. That is the conclusion of a Stanford University study, done by Emily Penner and Thomas Dee. I wrote about these courses back in 2014, when the San …
By Anthony Cody. In California, legislators will soon have a chance to approve AB 101, a new law that would task the state superintendent with developing a plan to promote the creation of elective courses in ethnic studies across the state. Ethnic studies is clearly important for students of color, who find …
By Anthony Cody. In the wake of the unindicted killing of Michael Brown, the roots and ramifications of racism in America have been brought to the surface once again. One of the constructive ways that educators can respond to this challenge is through Ethnic Studies courses. On November 19, the Los Angeles Unified …
