Archive of 2012 March
What’s Missing from the Conversation?: The Trayvon Martin Shooting and Race
on March 27th, 2012 in Blog by Valerie Nyberg | No Comments
Yesterday morning as I prepared for work, I heard someone speak about the February 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin stating that he should have stayed with his father on that fateful night. Last week, in the first public interview of Martin’s parents, on The Today Show, one of Matt Lauer’s…
Continue reading...HB2281 and the Arizona Politics of Fear
on March 16th, 2012 in Blog by Alyssa Rodriguez | No CommentsPower does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. –John Steinbeck What seems like a staunchly anti-Mexican, anti-immigrant saturated Arizona agenda has now irrevocably seeped into the state’s education system, risking the success of its many Mexican students. The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) was denied reinstatement…
Continue reading...High School Civil Rights Trip
on March 14th, 2012 in Blog by Bonnie Riggan | No CommentsOur friends at the FasTrac program are spending their Spring Break on a trip that them from Iowa City, IA to Memphis, TN, Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery, AL, and Atlanta, GA. They started a blog so they can share their experiences as they progress through their Civil Rights Tour. It’s…
Continue reading...Policy Institute on Race and Education
on March 1st, 2012 in Racial Equity by West Wind | Comments OffDownload the PowerPoint
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