Courtesy of Breakthrough News: The pandemic is ravaging the country and teachers and parents are organizing to prevent dangerous school reopenings. BreakThrough spoke with Frank Lara, an elementary school teacher and executive board member of the United Educators of… More
New York, NY — Exacerbated by the global COVID-19 pandemic, we are starkly reminded that Black people have endured varying progressions of state-sponsored terrorism for centuries. Many classrooms across the United States are microcosms of that history overlaid… More
Over the last month, schools nationwide have transitioned to various forms of online learning. Under the banners of 'remote learning', distance learning, 'home school', and others; students, teachers, parents, and education advocates have all navigated the transition in a multitude… More
Our society is designed to maintain racial and class-based inequity, and schools reflect and perpetuate this status quo. New systems, policies and pedagogy must actively undo this damage. The DSC started in 2006 when local grassroots and advocacy groups fighting… More
APPLY HERE Via our colleagues at the Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing Dear Friends and Allies, We are living through a pivotal historical period full of exciting opportunities for social change as well as grave threats to democracy… More
Over the past year, members of Deep’s Action Research Team (ART), as well as young people from around the city, gathered to examine the world that they live in, and more importantly, the things they can do to transform it.… More
DSC-NY Director Kate McDonough and Educator Becca Polk reflect on the impact big data, algorithms and predictive analytics on our students and in our schools. These reflections come after participating the Twin Cities Innovation Alliance's workshop at the
In a special segment of "By Any Means Necessary" Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon are joined by DSC member Marika Pfefferkorn, Co-Founder Coalition to Stop the Cradle to Prison Algorithm (CPA Coalition) and Twin Cities Innovation Alliance (TCIA) Director… More
Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out! features voices from the frontlines of a new movement for educational justice that is growing across the United States. Organizers and Activists recount their journeys to movement building, lift up victories and… More
Black Lives Matter at School is excited to announce the release of their newly produced campaign video! This short primer for the movement gets its subtitle from the words of high school student Israel Presley who says, “All I ever… More