James Ryan, a prominent and learned law professor at the University of Virginia (and a former colleague of the author), has produced a scholarly, well-written, and exhaustively researched book on education policy, "Five Miles Away, A World Apart" (Oxford). This article presents the author's critique on Ryan's book. The author argues that…

This article discusses how the white savior syndrome renders the misrepresentation of the potential of people of color to resist and lead the transformation of oppressive conditions within their own social context. Indigenous resistance requires endogenous (internal) leadership such that all social justice actions derive from and continue to flow…

This article discusses the author's observation that in his thirty-plus years in academics, many students who, by natural ability, interest, and work ethic, should have performed well in the sciences, but performed poorly. Many of these students are operating at the bottom rungs of Bloom's taxonomy (ladder), while college professors and industrial…