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This week a report from the Center for American Progress showed that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has dramatically scaled bac

Black families should not be forced to choose between schools that challenge them academically and schools that nurture and love them for who they are. Yet

I watched the second round of the 2020 democratic presidential debates and I wasn’t as disappointed in the talking points as I was during the first debates

The media is all over Cardi B for making a video with democratic socialist candidate Bernie Sanders. People who don’t know her are quick to dismiss her as

For 2020 Georgia Teacher of the Year Tracey Nance Pendley, the road to teaching was not easy. Pendley’s mother was a drug addict who was in and out of pris

A few weeks ago, I attended a conference called Educator Summit in Philadelphia. I’m not much of a conference attendee and didn’t know exactly what to expe

I was beyond excited when I accepted my first teaching position. I had worked hard all of those years, completed my student teaching, passed the certificat

I admire teachers who adopt an attitude best summed up by President Harry S Truman, who famously had a sign on his desk that said: “The buck stops here.” I

If we have really well-prepared young people who are going to the exact college they want to go to, who will graduate from college within six years with li