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"My obsession is about the future and the political rights of all people. Benjamin Zephaniah OBE - no way Mr Blair, no way Mrs Queen. I am profoundly anti-empire." Gutted to hear of the passing of one of the greats far, far too young.

You know how you were feeling a bit uncomfortable about the 'oracy' agenda, but weren't sure why? Ian Cushing explains why in this thread. TLDR?: 'The risk here is that social justice efforts are focused on changing children, rather than changing systems and structures. '

"call for new visions of language education rooted in radical, transformative justice." Ian Cushing

This OBE is not for me Benjamin Zephaniah

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Benjamin Zephaniah On Why He TURNED DOWN His OBE | The Big Narstie Show

Today marks 8 years since the Grenfell Tower fire. 72 people lost their lives in this preventable tragedy. Victims of corporate greed and institutional neglect.

deficit thinking is an industry. through educational consultancy, academic knowledge production, teacher textbooks, and intervention programmes, ideologies of linguistic deficit get converted into economic profit. 💸💰💵🤑

i love how the previous videos suggest we should treat all language varieties equally with respect, and then this

Palestinians in Gaza know that the aid stations are a sinister death trap. But the level of famine forces them to take the risk, fully aware they may be killed. And Israel banks on it. This is extermination.

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Israel kills 51 people waiting for flour Read this again and again

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New: Teachers at super-strict academy told to hand out 25 detentions a week - whatever their pupils’ behaviour educationuncovered.co.uk/news/teachers-… Latest developments at Ark Alexandra Academy, in Hastings, East Sussex.

delighted to announce our upcoming symposium entitled "Critical futures: Reimagining psychology for systemic change" join us in Birmingham in September to explore critical psychology and to collectively reimagine a psychology for social justice! eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-fut…

🧵THREAD: Zero Tolerance in England's Schools — Imported, Ignored, and Harmful You’ve probably heard it: “We have a zero-tolerance behaviour policy.” It sounds strong. Fair. Reasonable. But what if we told you this entire idea was imported from U.S. policing and has already

Really important 🧵 for everyone in #Education to understand why we say #NoToZeroTolerance #NoMoreExclusions

In a parallel world an ‘academic reviewer’ asked me to stick to the 55,000 figure we hear in the ‘news’

the London Association for the Teaching of English conference is on Saturday 5 July and is all about oracy. i am giving keynote on oracy, deficit thinking, and linguistic in/justice 🌸 londonenglishteachers.com/about/forthcom…

“language-poor homes” 🤢