Step One to Decolonizing: Reverse the gaze

  In her 2006 Presidential address to the American Educational Research Association, Gloria     Ladson-Billings called upon educational researchers to shift their lenses from the achievement gap to the achievement debt. Through this one-word change, Ladson-Billings calls upon educational research to widen and deepen the ways in which educational disparities are framed. Ladson-Billings traces the path…

Why are things the way they are?

Why are things the way they are? In Jared Diamond’s, Guns, Germs, and Steel, the geographer and physiologist commences with a  relatively straightforward question: why is it that some civilizations conquered others? Check out the  Diamond’s collapse – the Anastazi somebody who didn’t know writing and the consequences. Then  another culture that had writing but…