Roaches in My Cereal: And the Moral Imperative to Reimagine School

About this episode

The episode features a conversation about educational inequity and the need for reform, inspired by Dr. Brown's book.

This podcast is hosted by edWeb.net. The webinar recording can be accessed here. This edWeb podcast is a conversation with Dr. Melvin J. Brown, author of his new book, Roaches in My Cereal: And the Moral Imperative to Reimagine School, and Dr. Baron Davis, Former Superintendent and Founder of the Noegenesis Group. In his book, Dr. Brown blends memoir and manifesto to expose the inequity that shapes too many students’ lives—and too many schools’ failures. From a childhood marked by poverty, re...

People in this episode

Host: edWeb.net

Guests: Dr. Melvin J. Brown, Dr. Baron Davis

Topics covered

• education reform
• inequity in education
• memoir
• school failures
• childhood poverty

Keywords

• education
• inequity
• school reform
• memoir
• poverty

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