Ed Post Staff

ARE TODAY’S “CLASSROOM KARENS” JUST THE CURRENT VERSION OF JANE CROWS - WHITE WOMEN WHO SUPPORTED SCHOOL SEGREGATION?

Provocative Ed Post Series ‘Jane Crow: Then and Now’ Examines the Troubling Activities, Histories of White Women and Our Schools NEW YORK CITY— November 17, 2022 — White women are organizing around...

California

Across Colors Ep. 2: Oh, It’s Both of Y’all!

Episode Summary Tanzina heads to Oakland where a battle over how to teach students essential skills like reading has emerged. Some educators say methods for teaching students to read have long been...

Social Emotional Learning

Parents Know SEL Is Key to Kids' Success. That's Why They Want It in Schools.

In May, the Committee for Children and the Benenson Strategy Group released a poll that found the majority of parents support social-emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom. That’s a far cry from...

Social Emotional Learning

It’s Not Indoctrination to Help People Grow Through SEL

“Stop crying.” How often did some of us—many of us?—hear that as children? How many of us have said it to our own children? How many of us have heard—or said?—“stop crying, or I’ll give you something...

anti-racism

Betsy DeVos Is Back! She’ll Be Talking With Moms for Liberty on Saturday.

Betsy is back. And she’s making new friends. Trump-era Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will join the far-right group Moms for Liberty at what they’ve dubbed the Joyful Warrior National Summit this...

Charter Schools

Real Freedom Looks Like Black and Latinx Families Having the Power to Choose Their Own Schools

The Biden administration’s proposed new rules for the Charter Schools Program (CSP) would shift power away from Black families like mine, who support public charters, toward school districts and DC...