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Continue reading →: MDHR and Data on Racial Disparities in DisciplineIn this post I address my significant issues with MDHR’s 2022 Suspensions and Expulsions Report, including questioning if MDHR is hiding some uncomfortable truths.
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Continue reading →: Educators Should Educate, Not PontificateIn the absence of evidence of a causal relationship between implicit racism of professional educators and disproportionate exclusionary discipline imposed on students of color, maybe Educate Minnesota, and the administration of the Hopkins 270 school district, should to take a look in the mirror and check their own implicit biases.
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Continue reading →: Interpreting Data on DisparitiesTake a look at this data and what do you see — or more importantly, what do you feel? How we interpret data on social disparities is subject to our own biases. The sooner we recognize that, the sooner we can get down to business and actually attack the problem…
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Continue reading →: Correlation Does Not Equal CausationWe have science and established methodologies to examine data and determine if it is part of a pattern and causal, or if it is not part of the pattern and is merely correlative.
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Continue reading →: Politics and Other BiasesI think now is as good of a time as any to bite the bullet and fulfill my promise to address my political beliefs and biases in greater detail — certainly before I get too far into writing this blog.
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Continue reading →: Baseline: The Mission of Public Education in MNThe mission of public education is Minnesota is established by the legislature and detailed in our Education Code. School districts cannot rewrite the mission or deviate from it in order to achieve locally preferred political social objectives.
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Continue reading →: Hopkins 270 is Not Los Angles UnifiedThe Hopkins 270 administration needs to focus on creating policies, programs, and procedures to help THIS school district with OUR challenges, which do not include remediation of historical wrongs like those facing the L.A. Unified School District and others…
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Continue reading →: Tikkun Olam and Primum Non NocureThe Hopkins 270 district administration is focused on solving historical wrongs and healing the world while ignoring the need to first do no harm.
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Continue reading →: Examining the Progressive WishlistThe Hopkins 270 district administration has been enacting a progressive wishlist. The results are not good.
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Continue reading →: Why Start this Blog?For years I have sat quietly, hoping for things to get better, while privately getting increasingly frustrated with the Hopkins 270 district administration. After a series of violent assaults at Hopkins High School, and the administration’s complete failure of a response, I need to share my concerns…
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