Corey Miles E-SToPP Final Critical Reflection I grew up in the South to a single teenage mother who raised four kids on a minimum wage job. I am the first/only person in my family to go to college, let alone receive a college degree. When I engage in work for education equity for disadvantaged students, […]

Growing up as a poor person of color in the south, these readings touched me in a both educational and personal manner. Going to a public school segregated by both race and class I have experienced first-hand the violence of the Southern American educational system. I developed a natural desire to analyze the educational institution […]

Introduction Educators, policy makers, politicians, and most individuals that work in some part of the educational institution are in a peculiar position. These individuals are beneficiaries of the educational system (given their relative privileged positions), but are called upon to offer critiques of the very system that they are products of. This positionality influences the […]