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Where my activism began
10 years ago I was halfway to DC. After 10 years of failed education reform policies — 8 years of No Child Left Behind and 2 years of Race to The Top policies. Policies promising America that every child would be a reader by December 2013. A trillion dollars spent not on equity, but on high stakes testing and competitive school choice programs.
I am not like most professors silently writing articles, I do write them, but there is something strong in me that rejects silence and apathy. So, I set off on a 400-mile protest walk from Connecticut to DC.
This is my blog that began my walk 15 years ago based on my letter to President Obama that Anthony Cody published in Education Week.
Dr. Jesse P. Turner — Professor Emeritus, Literacy, Elementary, and Early Childhood Education
Read my original letter to President Obama in Education Week"There can be no successful school reform policy without equity for all children, anything less is child abuse. Silence and apathy are not acceptable paths in a moral universe."
When your nation spends 23 billion more on wealthy white schools than poor black and brown schools — silence and apathy from educators is not acceptable.
