Department of Education

We Suffocate: When Will We Finally Breathe?

An op-ed by Jonathan Collins, Assistant Professor of Education.

Jonathan Collins, Assistant Professor of Education, penned an op-ed for The Brown Daily Herald. "So, what do we do? Where do we go from here? I chose to study education because it gives me hope. I know that the American education system can, itself, offer the proverbial knee on the neck of Black children. I also know that education can save lives. It can offer pathways out of poverty and neglect. It can help us realize that the proverbial knee is why we suffocate, and it can be a tool we use to work toward its removal."

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