Education Archives - Page 3 of 6 - The Emancipator

Illustration showing a small schoolhouse glowing brightly in the center of the frame while people rush toward it from all directions. City buildings line the streets.

The beautiful vision of Boston’s Freedom Schools

by Dart Adams June 19, 2024December 20, 2024

Illustration showing rows of light-skinned students working at desks in upper left and rows of dark-skinned students working at desks in lower right, separated by empty floor space.

How school segregation survived Boston’s busing

by Emily Piper-Vallillo June 19, 2024December 20, 2024

Illustration showing outer wall of school building with glimpses into many classrooms with light-skinned students learning or painting or using laptops or playing music, while the last window in the lower right shows a single dark-skinned student sitting alone.

The empty promise of ‘diversity’

by Pamela D’Andrea Martínez June 19, 2024December 20, 2024

Illustration of girl with medium-dark skin and black hair curly in a bun pushing against doorway as rocks fly through air and crack glass behind her.

The buses we rode every September

by Leola Hampton June 19, 2024December 20, 2024

Illustration with fish-eye effect of dark-skinned child facing the doors of a school bus while many light-skinned kids look with blank expressions back at him.

The Boston ‘busing crisis’ was never about busing

by Jeanne Theoharis June 19, 2024December 20, 2024

Close-up of yellow school bus.

The complicated history of school choice in Boston

by Max Larkin, WBUR June 19, 2024December 20, 2024

Modern white and blue building from across the street.

How Boston’s Eliot School desegregated — and resegregated

by Max Larkin, WBUR June 19, 2024December 20, 2024

Composite image centering figure with dark brown skin and long braided black hair wearing a suit and a keffiyeh. Sea of graduates in the background.

Educators should embody the values they convey to students

by Sunn m’Cheaux May 29, 2024December 20, 2024

Five figures in uniforms and tactical vests stand under am archway which says "America's Gate"

Universities need to stop calling the cops on their own students

by Jasmine L. Harris May 14, 2024December 20, 2024

Crowd gathers at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association at the 365th Harvard University Commencement Afternoon Exercises on May 26, 2016 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

We should end legacy admissions. But it won’t make up for losing affirmative action.

by Ming Hsu Chen January 13, 2024December 20, 2024