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Posts By Tina Starks

If We Truly Want Equitable Schools, We're Going to Have to Work Together

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” -Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of...

Social Emotional Learning

3 Strategies To Help Kids Heal When Racist Tragedies Strike

Students across our nation started another week of school after yet another tragic mass shooting motivated by racism and hate. Teachers will face students who have likely heard about how an...

anti-racism

Black and Asian People Share a Struggle for Liberation. It’s Time We Teach It.

I am a proud daughter of a Black man raised in the South and a Japanese woman raised in rural Japan. My childhood home was a magical blend of James Brown’s I’m Black and I’m Proud and living the...

Achievement Gap

The Rush to Reopen Schools Comes at a Price for Marginalized Students

The growing demand to reopen schools echoes across the country, supported by billions of dollars in federal funds to help schools “build back better.” States like California are backing the effort...

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