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This is not a test: a new narrative on race, class, and education

This is not a test: a new narrative on race, class, and education

2014

José Luis Vilson

José Luis Vilson

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Jose Vilson
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Age of Awareness

On Educational Justice, Now & Forever

Notes on justice and how we can start doing better by schools and communities, starting with ourselves.

5 min readMay 5, 2023

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On Educational Justice, Now & Forever

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Jose Vilson

The Schools We Have, Need, and Deserve

What the pandemic taught us about our investment in schools

4 min readMar 28, 2022

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The Schools We Have, Need, and Deserve

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Jose Vilson
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EduColor

Climate Justice Is Education Justice

We must have all hands on deck to ensure a better future. Our schools and communities has and will play a major role in that future.

5 min readOct 31, 2021

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Climate Justice Is Education Justice

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Jose Vilson
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EduColor

The Lessons We Refuse To Learn (Some More About The Secretary of Education)

“Mr. President and all of the other persons at the head table and all of you great delegates … I want to say to you, this great delegate…

8 min readNov 16, 2020

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The Lessons We Refuse To Learn (Some More About The Secretary of Education)

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Jose Vilson
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EduColor

A Lament on NYC Educators of Color

Now that I have enough distance from disaster distance learning, I definitely recognize the onset of depression about three weeks in…

4 min readOct 12, 2020

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A Lament on NYC Educators of Color

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Jose Vilson
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Age of Awareness

Whose Politics Deserve To Be Educational?

There’s a common story that’s usually told among my friends and my generation about studying history in K-12. The teacher tells a long…

5 min readSep 15, 2020

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Whose Politics Deserve To Be Educational?

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Jose Vilson

I Been Gettin’ To This Movement, Everybody Mad [For Us, By Us, About Us] #EduColor

What we learned about systems, schools, and ourselves from when we gathered.

4 min readJul 23, 2019

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I Been Gettin’ To This Movement, Everybody Mad [For Us, By Us, About Us] #EduColor

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Jose Vilson
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NWP Write Now

Writing As Threat (On Elizabeth Acevedo and Writing)

On the Saturday after I spoke on a panel at the Schomburg, I attended the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators conference…

4 min readFeb 14, 2019

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Writing As Threat (On Elizabeth Acevedo and Writing)

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Jose Vilson
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Age of Awareness

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Need for Educational Justice Now

In April of 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave speeches in front of the United Nations and at the Riverside Church about the need to…

4 min readJan 22, 2019

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Need for Educational Justice Now

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Jose Vilson

Andria Zafirakou on Legacy and Arts Teaching

“The biggest challenge I’ve ever had to experience was me telling my parents that I was gonna go into the arts. Cuz they didn’t want that.”

5 min readNov 4, 2018

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Andria Zafirakou on Legacy and Arts Teaching

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Jose Vilson

Jose Vilson

Book Author

The educator Gotham deserves. Architect for a better future. Speaker, activist, and author. https://thejosevilson.com. IG: @thejosevilson

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