The Christian Science Monitor September 1, 2021. By Stephanie Hanes Staff writer @stephaniehanes Yvette Jordan remembers the day she learned the water fountains at her school were dangerous. It was in March 2016, and Ms. Jordan was teaching history at Barringer High...
CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING Ethnic Studies proponents say K-12 curriculum has remained largely Eurocentric and disconnected to the growing population of students of color in the U.S. By Hoa P. Nguyen May 10, 2021 It was November 1968, and studying the history and...
Expert Blog Kristi Pullen Fedinick, Co-authored with Yvette Jordan It is understood that water is life. It’s the purest form of nature’s essential presence in our lives. Water baptizes us. Water renews us. Water nourishes us. What happens when the purity of our water...
AND RACE, EQUITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Monday, March 9. 6-8pm. 154 Summit St, Newark, NJ NJIT Campus Center Atrium – for info (973) 596-3000 It’s not just Flint. In the last few years, over five million people drank water from systems that violated the...
Newark Education Workers Caucus (NewCacus) Newark Education Workers Caucus (NEW Caucus) has been in existence since 2012 and started as a caucus of the Newark Teachers Union (NTU) whose sole purpose was to bring social justice to the members of NTU at a time when it...
A bit of my family history – we’ve been there since the beginning going back eight generations as part of the Sandy Ground community in Staten Island. Nothing stronger than that SANDY GROUND bloodline. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — When the state of New York...
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