White people, with all the racial turmoil in our world, do you want “do something” about racism? Well, today is your lucky day! Debuting for this school year is a new anti-racist curriculum titled...
I’ve spent two decades obsessing about creating better schools. I’ve fought for books, for assessments, for standards, for options—for kids. And lately, I feel like I’m screaming into the void....
For a very long time, I’ve beaten you over the head with a deceptively simple question that ought to animate every education policy debate in America: How are the children? Not how are the politics....
My grandmother’s doctor visits are not political. The cost of my monthly prescriptions doesn’t care if the Senate swings red or blue. And yet, both are now caught in the crosshairs of one of the most...
Every year, the Fourth of July arrives wrapped in red, white, and blue Americana—a spectacle of fireworks, parades, and proclamations of freedom. But for Black Americans, this national celebration is...