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The Education Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Please Read — Not Paved For Us
Dear Dr. Camika Royal,
First off, I want to thank you for the platform your book has given to the voices of black educators in the vanguard for education liberation. Your book, Not Paved for Us: Black Educators and Public School Reform in Philadelphia, is an empowering piece of literature and it resonated deeply with me.
In your book, you acknowledge the hard work of ordinary black educators to help tell the story of the progress and pitfalls of school reform. You also provide critical analysis of how neoliberal and education market reforms conspire against transforming the outcomes for black students and educators. Your work is both powerful and extremely insightful.
Similar to you, I am a black educator and have seen the Philadelphia public school system from the inside and out. After reading your book I can confidently say that your insight and research on education liberation and the tensions and consequences of education reform, spoke to me as a student, parent, and educator.
Your book follows a fifty-year chronicle of the Philadelphia public school district. You share the voices of those who have seen the entirety of the consequences of education reform shaped by race and politics throughout these fifty…
