RCSD to rename schools honoring segregationist Louis Cerulli, slaveowner Charles Carroll
Charles Carroll, a city co-founder, owned people in slavery, while Louis Cerulli fought ferociously against integration efforts.
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Charles Carroll, a city co-founder, owned people in slavery, while Louis Cerulli fought ferociously against integration efforts.
By A. Peter Bailey Even though some elected officials attempt to rewrite history and remove from school curriculums painful chapters ranging from slavery to George Floyd, there has been a renewed interest in the stories and figures that shaped the Black community and, in turn, the nation. One of the few retrospectives that has so
Few stars have blazed as bright in education innovation circles as Mohammed Choudhury’s. In less than 15 years, he rose from classroom teacher to turnaround and innovation czar in some of the country’s largest — and most impoverished — school systems. At each stop, his ideas have had a profound impact, undergirding novel policies that […]
As a national reporter, Laura Meckler is generally introduced as “The Washington Post’s Laura Meckler.” But, as her new book, Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity, makes clear, she’s also “Shaker Heights, Ohio’s Laura Meckler.” She’s a product of that community’s public schools, which host one of the country’s longest-running, and […]