Thanks to immigrants, the US won 75% of Nobel prizes in 2023. Without them, we only would have won 25%.
High skilled immigration is a policy lever for more innovation unlike anything else. Oh and its free.
Justice Sotomayor has sharp words for Chief Justice Roberts' and Justice Thomas' characterization of Thurgood Marshall's views on race and Brown v. Board of Education.
With a nod to @NAACP_LDF's brief.
ICYMI: Last night, the Texas House gave initial approval to Senate Bill 17, which would ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices at Texas public colleges and universities.
Here are my five main takeaways from the debate, which lasted hours: #txlege
Honored and excited to share my struggles and joys as a multilingual and transnational motherscholar navigating academia. Join me, let's cry & share stories! @REAPAgrads
Thank you @Judy_Reach for your incredible leadership on this 💕 Grateful to do this work alongside you, @cacf 's Vanessa Leung and members of our BASC!!
And that’s a wrap for #Kweli23 💫 We leave you with these Closing Keynote parting thoughts
“Write the book you are scared to write" — @DrIbram
“Write the book that haunts you" — #EdwidgeDanticat
THANK YOU to all panelists, attendees, partners! Stay tuned for more highlights!
New work now available open access 🔓 in Educational Linguistics:
The knowledge-rich project, coloniality, and the preservation of whiteness in schools: a raciolinguistic perspective.
https://t.co/3ZuMBLW8Fj
Today @rweingarten laid out the attacks on public education and then offered tangible solutions that help kids. While one side is pushing culture wars, @rweingarten and teachers are focused on #WhatKidsNeed. https://t.co/t2zclu8gBO
📣 LAST CALL! 📣
Excited to announce that a limited number of seats have opened up for @kwelijournal COLOR OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE CONFERENCE #Kweli23.
👉 SIGN UP TODAY before every spot is gone! https://t.co/12nW0sOHWP
On #WorldPoetryDay, we honor #AudreLorde, an acclaimed Black poet and activist who taught at three CUNY colleges: @LehmanCollege, John Jay College, and her alma mater @Hunter_College. Her poetry tackled sexism, classism, and racial and social justice in America.
New article of mine just published in @ConversationUK:
How Black children in England’s schools are made to feel like the way they speak is wrong https://t.co/150ukaC2QC
Happy to share my latest article, Storying against non-human/superhuman narratives: Black youth Afro-futurist counterstories in qualitative research. I anchor my theorizing in Kara Walker's 1996 Untitled piece (@SikkemaJenkins), and ground my research in Afrofuturism & BlackCrit
“Black boys…they often receive messages that you don’t belong, you’re a criminal...They are actually being devalued in the education system, so how would they imagine being teachers?” @selmekki via @NTerryEllis https://t.co/ykXfy6A0qJ @CenterBlackEd @TheLiteracyLab @RJ_Hendricks