Boggs Educational Center

An open letter to Time Inc. on the occasion of the first article reflecting your yearlong commitment in Detroit

preojecteducate — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:59:53 +0000

Shea Howell and Rich Feldman of the Boggs Center have each written open letters to Time Inc. in response to the Time Magazine article “Detroit: The Death — and Possible Life — of a Great City” by Daniel Okrent. Time Inc. has purchased a house in Detroit to serve as a temporary headquarters for a year-long [...]

Julia reflects on her experiences in Detroit Summer

projecteducate — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:26:24 +0000

Grace Lee Boggs speaks on “Democracy Now”

projecteducate — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:22:46 +0000

Grace on Democracy Now

Philosopher Grace Lee Boggs and Sociologist, Monthly Review Editor John Bellamy Foster on the Financial Meltdown, Social Change and Redefining Democracy

While Wall Street appears to be recovering from the financial meltdown, Main Street has not. We speak to two guests who for decades have advocated for a radical rethinking of how the nation’s economy is structured: Grace Lee Boggs, a ninety-four-year-old Detroit-based philosopher and activist involved with the civil rights, Black Power, labor, environmental justice, and feminist movements for the past seven decades; and John Bellamy Foster, editor of the socialist journal Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon.

Julia on YouTube: A tribute to Jimmy Boggs and Detroit Summer …

preojecteducate — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:50:15 +0000

Check out this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Gar6aya5s

Julia Putnam’s Yes Magazine Feature….

preojecteducate — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:59:45 +0000

Julia has written an article about her education in Detroit, her relationship with Grace, and her educational vision for our city. This article appears in Yes Magazine this fall and is on line. Please visit the link http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/learn-as-you-go/a-lifelong-search-for-real-education/

“A New School Year Begins” – by Grace Lee Boggs

preojecteducate — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:17:10 +0000

This article is originally part of Grace’s “Living for Change” series. LIVING FOR CHANGE A NEW SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS Last week Bill Cosby was in Detroit going door to door with Robert Bobb, Detroit Public Schools financial manager, urging parents to send their children to our failing public schools. Cosby is on the crusade which he launched five [...]

Archived writing about critical literacy …. This appeared in Critical Moment in 2005.

projecteducate — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:42:24 +0000

Detroit Needs Critical Literacy: Changing the way we teach reading to empower our children. In a recent article, long time Detroit activist Grace Lee Boggs addressed an issue not tackled by the glossy leaflets circulated by Detroit school candidates. Sadly, nearly 50 percent of Detroit students are dropping out [...]

The Boggs Educational Center’s Curriculum …

projecteducate — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:34:37 +0000

We just returned from a three day retreat. Much of the retreat was spent developing a curricular framework for our school. This was an exhausting, exciting and uplifting process. We are eager to share what we came up with in the near future.

Another Piece of Archived Writing.

preojecteducate — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:32:47 +0000

This appeared in Critical Moment about two years ago. http://www.criticalmoment.org/issue19/walker Cheating Our Kids The Crisis of Standardized Testing in Public Schools Nate Walker On August 13th, two weeks before the Detroit Federation of Teachers officially went on strike, I interviewed with Detroit Public Schools. Although I had been working for Detroit Public Schools for the past four years, [...]

“It was once said” … past publications from the project education team!

Benjamin Chodoroff — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:59:50 +0000

Even before we started this blog, many of the folks involved in Project Education and the Boggs Educational Center have written about education and Detroit, among other things. We have decided to post some of our archived writing, just in case (or more then likely) you missed it the first time around. Our first post [...]