The URBAN Philadelphia node endorses\u00a0the following initiative:<\/p>\n
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Dear higher education colleagues and friends,<\/p>\n
We, the undersigned professors and scholars, publicly express our support for, and solidarity with, teachers and community members who have organized the 2018 National Black Lives Matter Week of Action[workingeducators.org]<\/a> to be held between \u00a0February 5-10, 2018. This week of action focuses on making Black Lives Matter in our universities and schools by engaging our communities in discussions centered on the 13 guiding principles that extend Black Lives Matter into a movement. We believe that this week of action is vital for educators, parents, students, and all communities in order to…<\/p>\n We are asking you, our colleagues, to:<\/strong><\/p>\n As this work continues beyond February 10th, we point to the Racial Justice Statement written by the Caucus of Working Educators (Philadelphia), which asserts that \u201cpurposeful action needs to be taken in order to eliminate the adverse outcomes derived from perpetual structural racism evident in public education.\u201d<\/p>\n This ongoing work will promote equity; the value of human life; and educational, political, and social justice.\u00a0 It requires that all of us, as educators, develop the knowledge and actions necessary to eliminate the barriers that intersecting forms of structural prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, and bias create in Philadelphia and beyond.\u00a0 We are committed to teaching, learning, and co-creating culture in our classrooms that reflect these mission and goals in order to build the leadership of our students so that we may all live by these principles.\u00a0 The survival and liberation of Black people and, by extension, all people demands this.<\/p>\n Thank you for your time and attention.<\/p>\n In Solidarity,<\/p>\n Jen Bradley, Swarthmore College<\/p>\n David I. Backer, West Chester University<\/p>\n Dana M Simone, West Chester University<\/p>\n Miranda Weinberg, \u00a0Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n Mark C. Lewis, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education<\/p>\n Elaine Leigh, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n Sharon Ravitch, Penn GSE<\/p>\n Richard Liuzzi, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n Elly Porter-Webb, Community College of Philadelphia<\/p>\n Kathleen Riley, West Chester University<\/p>\n Nicholas Toloudis, The College of New Jersey<\/p>\n Katie Pak , Penn GSE<\/p>\n Krystal Strong , University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n Casey Bohrman, West Chester University<\/p>\n Rosemary A Barbera, La Salle University<\/p>\n Amy Brown, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n Kyle Schultz, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n Susan L. DeJarnatt, Temple University<\/p>\n Encarna Rodr\u00edguez, Saint Joseph’s University<\/p>\n Kristen Goessling, \u00a0Penn State, Brandywine<\/p>\n Sarah Byker James, Community College of Philadelphia<\/p>\n Jody Polleck, Hunter College<\/p>\n Steven Davis, Community College of Philadelphia<\/p>\n Edwin Mayorga, Swarthmore College<\/p>\n Laura Roy, La Salle University<\/p>\n Cassie Lo, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n Lauren Anderson, Connecticut College<\/p>\n Camika Royal, Loyola University Maryland<\/p>\n Bree Picower, Montclair State University<\/p>\n Tanya Maloney, Montclair State University<\/p>\n Nirmala Erevelles, The University of Alabama<\/p>\n Keisha McIntosh Allen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County<\/p>\n Rema Reynolds, Eastern Michigan University<\/p>\n Jamel K. Donnor, The College of William & Mary<\/p>\n Charles H.F. Davis III, University of Southern California<\/p>\n Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/p>\n Jessica Shiller, Towson University<\/p>\n Ramon Goings, Loyola University Maryland<\/p>\n Karin Lange, Loyola University Chicago<\/p>\n Roderick L. Carey, University of Delaware<\/p>\n Sonia M. Rosen, Arcadia University<\/p>\n Kathryn Strom, California State University East Bay<\/p>\n Bobby Rivers, St. John’s University<\/p>\n Jennifer V. Jones<\/p>\n Jenna Cushing-Leubner, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater<\/p>\n Erin Whitney, California State University, Chico<\/p>\n Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Temple University<\/p>\n Juliet Curci, Temple University<\/p>\n Tabitha Dell\u2019Angelo, The College of New Jersey<\/p>\n Beth C Rubin, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<\/p>\n James Arrington, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n Lisa Smulyan, Swarthmore College<\/p>\n Monica Taylor, Montclair State University<\/p>\n Sara Tolbert, University of Arizona<\/p>\n Lara Cohen, Swarthmore College<\/p>\n Zoe Burkholder, Montclair State University<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Edwin Mayorga | Assistant Professor Principal Investigator | Education in our Barrios Project, #BarrioEdProj #BarrioEdPHL #CritEdPol | Critical Education Policy Studies Group & Online Journal<\/p>\n w:\u00a0http:\/\/critedupolicy.swarthmore.edu\/[critedupolicy.swarthmore.edu]<\/a>\u00a0| t:\u00a0@critedpol<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The URBAN Philadelphia node endorses\u00a0the following initiative:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7HMh0-gQL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64776,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64775\/revisions\/64776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanresearchnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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