Stories

I have been navigating majority (or all) white spaces for a very long time. Whether it was the tracked gifted and talented classes or my time at university

On January 6, as my students were learning about the history of trench warfare during World War I, I had no idea that our own Capitol was under attack―and

I came across an image on social media the other day and it made me stop and think. In it, two boys—one white and one Black—are walking down the street, th

I was gifted an advanced screening of “Judas and the Black Messiah” earlier this week and it affirmed just how much education equals power, while simultan

When I was eleven, my teacher divided our class into groups of four to complete a project on the United States Constitution. The three other members of my

A war has been waging in my home state of Illinois, and the battle lines have been drawn. In one corner of the ring—the “uber leftists” who justify the nee

Prior to COVID-19 upending American education, some state legislatures around the country considered moratoriums or “pauses” on public charter schools; whi

When millions of parents became de facto teachers during COVID-19, they saw firsthand a deep-seeded, widespread problem in American education: lackluster c

Although the United States has always had a diverse population, public school curricula are overwhelmingly built around a white, male perspective. Students