Children playing outside school.

In a Post-Pandemic World, We Must Pay More Attention to Emotions

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is valuable for changing the climate and culture of the classroom.

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What Is Environmental Activism? Youth of Color Creating Justice

What is Environmental Activism? From the Bronx to Louisiana, it’s Black, Brown and Indigenous GenZ leaders fighting for environmental justice.

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Cultural Worker Marie Medjine Antoine Plants Seeds of a Green Economy

What is an environmental activist? Marie Medjine Antoine helps residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley sprout a new economy based on arts and culture.

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How Alabama Is Leading the Way in Solving the Math Crisis

While many states have laws aimed at improving literacy, few are targeting math instruction. Alabama is doing just that with the Numeracy Act.

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Student walking outside Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS in the Bronx.

What Is Environmental Activism? Bronx Youth Making Green Space

At Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS, Black and Brown youth build environmental justice in NYC by modeling how to cap the Cross-Bronx Expressway with green space.

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Jackson’s Maisie Brown Links Social and Environmental Justice

Digital activist and Gen Z leader Maisie Brown fights for social and environmental justice–from Black Lives Matter to the Jackson water crisis.

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Freedom Coalition for Charter Schools.

Education Needs A Radical Middle

Education culture wars don’t speak to parents in the radical middle. They want community charters that center Black and Brown students.

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Gen Z Chief Devon Parfait Fights to Save His People’s Land

Having overcome a climate-disrupted education, GenZ Chief Devon Parfait works for environmental justice by saving the Louisiana coast.

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Children Paying the Price for Culture Wars and Witch Hunts in Public Education

Our children are being used as pawns in the politically motivated culture wars being forced into our nation’s public schools.

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