Guest Blogger
Intern, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans
Washington, D.C.
Andrene Jones-Castro is a graduate intern at the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans and is a doctoral student studying education policy at the University of Texas at Austin.
Sixty-two years ago this month, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and prohibited discrimination on…
There are very few spaces where women are affirmed and acknowledged as mothers, sisters, partners and leaders. There are even…
On Friday June 10, 2016, The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans (WHIEEAA) in partnership with National…
I didn’t want to go to school that day. Actually, I just didn’t want to go to math class. We had a test and I…
Before I left school yesterday, I looked at my classroom. Not to check and make sure the floor was clean, or to look for coats…
Trauma is a silent, but very prevalent problem in the classrooms of today. In fact, recent reports by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services…
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