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Posts by Jesse P. Turner

The Readman Truth To Power Hour: School Equity, Broken Promises
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Dear Mr. Governor, Bridgeport BOE Memeber Joe Sokol is calling in Connecticut 100 Million IOU to Bridgeport
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Thanksgiving Reflections

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Dear Mr. President, about this war on Christianity

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Dear Mr. Baldwin, does writing change the world?

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Tomorrow at 11 on 103.5 FM New Haven we talk real writing! With Badass Connecticut Writing Project Director Bryan Ripley Randall, the ghost of Baldwin and TRuth to Power Hour host Dr. Jesse P. Turner

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Whose Public Schools? Our Schools!

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Wake up, 23 years of failed Education Reform policies and mandates in our public schools, 25,000 local community schools closed.

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Her Lamp is no less dim 139 years later

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Teachers are not kissing his ring

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Her Lamp is no less dim 139 years later

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ICE Thugs 41 shots 2025

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And they wonder why it is Chaos in Chicago.

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Dear Massachusetts Legislators: Something can't be boxed

Mass Teachers need smaller class sizes, more librarians, art, music, and para-professionals, not another mandate

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Mandates in the end demoralize teachers, and increase our teacher shortage.

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Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 19 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards.

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The Readman Truth To Power Hour: Mathematics Rainbow
The Readman Truth To Power Hour: Mathematics Rainbow YouTube video by New Haven Independent

Dr. Shelly Jones CCSU Math Professor talking Math Joy today on the Readman: Truth to Power Hour with Dr. Jesse P. Turner. The doorway to engaging and motivating students in Mathematics requires teachers to connect to Culturally Relevant Pedagogies.

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Mr. President, looking for extremist Terrorism, look no further than White Supremacy This blog welcomes readers who believe that education reforms rooted in punitive high-stakes testing policies based solely standardized test scores create and maintain a public school system rooted in vast inequalities for Black, Brown, and Special Education children. This Blog welcomes all you beautiful WOKE People

Mr. President about these bogeymen on the left...
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The Readman Truth To Power Hour: The Recipe Retain & Recruit Educators
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What happens when the new dean understands that mandates and high stakes testing do not inspire and lift the morale of students, teachers, and school leadership.
Come meet Dr. John W. Barile

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Back to School Special: Ringing the 3-Alarm Fire Bells Back-to-school season is often a time of celebration — fresh notebooks, sharpened pencils, and the promise of new beginnings. But this year feels different.

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Is this fascism rising in America?

Am I the only one who finds it interesting that Donald Trump could not send the National Guard in 1/5/21 DC, but on 8/11/25 DC he can. Slipping into Fascism childrenaremorethantestscores.blogspot.com/2025/08/is-t...

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Dr. Vasquez weaving in Kenrick Lamar GNX into the call for courageous leadership, joy and vision to day at Centering Black Children Conference 8/8/25 This is spiritual invitation to the struggle of abolitionist educator.
Preach Brother

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig using Hip Hop to paint Public Education as a Black Mural being defaced (8/8/25). "Art inspires and endure JVH

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Dr. Louise Rosenblatt and What Race, Culture, and Politics have to do with low reading scores in Black and Brown Communities

Learning to readVsthe Freeodom to read
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At 70 I know better...

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Much of what I know about teaching came not from the research, but from books and folding chair Mommas'

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Close Brennan-Rogers? Not So Fast ... On a large poster board, Brennan-Rogers paraprofessional Joneya Kasperzyk wrote "Real kids. Real futures. Don’t close the door on our dreams," as she and…

When are parents in majority Black and Brown school districts ever given a choice in this choice without equity world?
I stand with Brennan-Brown parets,
Dr. Jesse P. Turner
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The new Attack on Public Schools in Communities of color

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Just saying if Ed Refromers really Cared
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Trump says he plans to phase out FEMA after 2025 hurricane season | CNN Politics President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year’s hurricane season, offering the clearest timeline yet for his administration’s l...

In the end he burns everyone in need of a helping hand in times of their greatest need. Not make America great, but make America HATE
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1.1M views · 51K reactions | TACO the Clown says what? 🤡🌮🤡🌮 | By The Resistance | Facebook TACO the Clown says what? 🤡🌮🤡🌮

Trump can't even walk up a flight of stairs
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CNN finds health protections for miners eroded under Trump | CNN Politics In just 5 months, President Trump has dismantled the safety net that for years protected miners from injury and disease. CNN’s Kyung Lah traveled to coal country where miners fear the impact of the cu...

Coal Miners are you better off today under President Trump?
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The Readman Truth To Power Hour: Dr. Robert Cotto from Trinity University. "School Choice Without Equity" | Call In Number 203-516-0225 http://wnhh.org http://wnhhradio.org http://newhavenindependent... Call In Number 203-516-0225 http://wnhh.org http://wnhhradio.org http://newhavenindependent.org

Is it school choice, or just status quo cover for inequality for Black and Brown children?
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Poor little Donald, breaking up is hard to do.
With Donald it is a race to the bottom.
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House GOP ‘big, beautiful bill’ would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion, CBO says | CNN Politics House Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending cuts package would add $2.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the bill that GOP lawm...

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Please don't pretend you had no clue?

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I am shaking the money tree that profits off the misery of our nation's children, as usual, this summer.

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The Read Man Truth to Power Hour: Tell Me Something Good | Children's Author Daneil Howell http://wnhh.org http://wnhhradio.org http://newhavenindependent.org | By New Haven Independent | Facebook Children's Author Daneil Howell http://wnhh.org http://wnhhradio.org http://newhavenindependent.org

Imagine learning on our feet, thinking about art, music, and movement in every learning engagement. Come meet Daniel Howell, author of Bee 4 Goodnight and active learning advocate.
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Mr/ President 880,000 TRIO Trafromative Voices beg to differ

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880,000 TRIO Voices calling, Mr. President

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