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Alumnus Blake Bostick Pens Essay for SOE Journal

by UM School of Education on May 24, 2018

J. Blake Bostick

UM Higher Education Alumnus Blake Bostick (BA 10, MA 16) recently published an essay titled “Quality Education as a Civil Right” in the Journal of Contemporary Research in Education, published by the UM School of Education.

According to the journal, “his essay makes the case for understanding education as a basic and necessary civil right; arguably, a human right that enables and sustains life. (Bostick’s work) reminds readers of the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that ostensibly ended legal segregation only to usher in a de facto era of segregation also with devastating implications.”

A native of Horn Lake, Mississippi, Bostick is currently an admission counselor at UM-DeSoto and will begin serving as director of evening programs at Northwest Mississippi Community College – DeSoto Center in October 2018.

“I’m humbled and excited to have my first scholarly publication in the Journal of Contemporary Research in Education, in which I make the case that quality K-12 education should be considered a civil right,” he said. “I’m particularly proud of this essay because when I set out to write it, I held the opposite view, but my research transformed my opinion.”