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There’s nothing quite like walking around with former First Lady Michelle Obama when she’s meeting students for the first time. I’ve seen her stroll across

“I could never make it there,” they said. “I am just not smart enough,” they explained. Those were some of the comments I heard from students in my high sc

“But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.” ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   We weren’t exactly singing “kumbaya” when i

Politics is at the heart of so much that is wrong with public education. On the left, education politics is often about increasing funding while evading re

At 23 years old Alisha Thomas Morgan became the first African-American to represent Cobb County in the Georgia House of Representatives. During her 12 year

This guest post is by an anonymous, Oakland-based educator. One time my mom tried to kill me. She chased me with a knife, cackling like a witch. It was hid

I got my letter last week. My principal met me at my door. I knew it was coming. Still, it hurt. The formality of “terminate your contract effective…pursua

Some states may be setting themselves up to fail. That’s my takeaway after reading through a summary of state education plans for dealing with schools that

17-year-old Ifeoma White-Thorpe has been accepted to all 8 Ivy League schools and Stanford. “Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pri