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Tomorrow, Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard faces three misdemeanor charges for protecting students who were protesting the Gaza genocide. Of 10 defendants, her charges are most punitive. Please sign this letter demanding that all charges be dropped. bit.ly/WilloughbyHera…

Brittany C. Murray and I are proud to share our newest paper “Missing the Forest for the Trees: Toward a Networked Racial Analysis of White Parents in Education Policy and Research” Educational Researcher - Editors. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00… A Thread 1/4

Dr. Chantal A. Hailey and I are proud to share our newest paper “Missing the Forest for the Trees: Toward a Networked Racial Analysis of White Parents in Education Policy and Research” Educational Researcher - Editors. Thread 1/4 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00…

We propose a shift from conceptualizing White parent behaviors as individual advantage seeking influenced by political rhetoric and afforded by economic privilege to a practice of collective racialized opportunity hoarding. 2/4

Recs for studying White opportnity hoarding:1 Use whiteness studies to show how collective racial ideologies, structures, &power guide behaviors 2Use relational, longitudinal analyses w/n& beyond schools to examine how &when networks, discourses &orgs maintain White advantage 3/4

A focus on White parent collective agendas and mobilization tactics enables us to anticipate when and how White parents will consolidate power in education and to devise strategies that resist white supremacy and enhance racial equity. 4/4

While you are here. check out Dr. Chantal A. Hailey and my SSM paper. We find White liberal parents only preferred mask and vaccine mandates when attending non-White schools and did not care about COVID protocols for majority White schools.

Important work for every educator concerned about family engagement!

Philly Educator Gets $20 Million to Create Get More Black Teachers...And a Lot of Hate in the Process theroot.com/philly-educato… via The Root Center for Black Educator Development Black Men in Education Convening #BMEC #WeNeedBlackTeachers

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We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women

In KY, vouchers lost all 120 counties—119 of those by double digits.

#HBCUs are not only educational institutions—they’re powerful economic engines that fuel growth, innovation and opportunity in their communities and beyond Read UNCF's 2024 HBCU Economic Impact Report: uncf.org/hbcuimpactrepo…

Excited to share my new article in Social Forces ! Using a survey experiment with 995 families, I show how race shapes beliefs about school safety. White, Asian, and Latine families perceive Black schools as less safe—even when safety ratings are identical. #Education #Race 1/4

What do you call a half-billion $ voucher scheme for already-private students that destroys learning pathways for the rest? The Kochs and other right-wing billionaires call it a “civil rights” plan 🤦‍♂️ I call it education’s predatory lending Tennessean tennessean.com/story/news/pol…

This is the space we need right now

Because the voucher lobby guys know as well as I do that the results are dreadful and can’t risk any more headlines like these👇

Movements often precede change. 65 yrs ago, the A&T Four sparked not only change but the notion that change could ONLY come through a certain age. Those four FRESHMEN weren't disillusioned. They were empowered & emboldened. May we take the same stance & spark the same change.⬇️