Stories

School choice strawmen are a formidable army that thinking people have yet to defeat. Nevertheless, we must keep trying.

In late September, I began my class with my usual prompt: Is there anything in the news you’d like to share? My students would generally talk about the pre

Only days after the projected presidential results, a microphone unmutes with shuffling in the backdrop, and a doubtful guise on the face of a teenage, Dom

The presidential election had me so stressed that I had to run my ass across the border to the beaches and palm trees in Mexico to save my sanity. Thankful

I was so excited last week. Exhausted, like so many of us are, but just plain happy. As my students romped into my room, and I heard the laughter each day

The National Assessment for Education Progress (NAEP)—nicknamed “America’s Report Card”—released their 12th grade scores at the end of October.  The horrif

For families, students and staff, the start of this year was markedly different from past years. In place of student schedules and bus routes, our students

Joe Biden’s election and this week’s good news about several coronavirus vaccine candidates are massive developments in a months-long debate over how our s

In the aftermath of this most recent election, I want to remind us that politics are not solely presidential. That, in fact, much of the most important pol