#WaterCoolerConversations will be a weekly dose of two articles (can be videos, audio/podcasts, etc) that we encourage you to check out and talk with each other about! Come back every Thursday for your next dose! This week: More
This Saturday, on the anniversary of the largest Police-Free Schools march in New York City history, join us to demand Police-Free Schools now. We have the opportunity to make police-free schools a reality in NYC. The fate of school policing… More
In the midst of a historical presidential and vice- presidential election - Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities are still plagued with economic, education, housing, safety and health inequities fueled by systemic racism for communities of color, the pandemic has highlighted… More
About the film: CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against… More
Download the ebook here. Shout out to Noname Book Club (nonamebooks.com) for the plug! From Verso: Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversation about how… More
The 2021-22 New York State budget meets a thirty-year-old demand and thirteen-year-old broken promise: equitably fund New York State's public schools so that no matter what zip code a child resides in, there is a baseline of quality their public schools… More
This is a critical conversation that we need to be having in education and as a society. I genuinely hope you will be part of the discussion and seek solutions with us as we take a deep dive into how… More
#BlackHistoryMonth has too often been reduced to lists of Black Firsts (with no mention of the social context these people and their accomplishments came out of), MLK quotes stripped from the life, action and politics of… More
For Immediate Release Contact: Tafari Melisizwe, Communications Coordinator [email protected] | www.dignityinschools.org DSC Statement on the latest #AssaultAt, this time in Florida #AssaultAtLibertyHS #FireEthanFournier New York, NY -- We hope that Taylor Bracey,… More
Location Flexible About the People’s Think Tank The People’s Think Tank (PTT) is an intersectional movement space for re-imagining a radically democratic future, fiscally sponsored by the Schott Foundation for Public Education. Members of the PTT network include 40+ grassroots… More