COVID-19
This Is the Moment to Tackle Teacher Diversity. We Can't Wait.
President Biden has put our nation’s education system front and center, recently announcing plans for enormous investments in education from pre-K through college, in addition to the imminent arrival...
Charter Schools
Will We Finally Tap The Learning Expertise That Is Present in Oft-Overlooked Communities?
Talk of an education “recovery” to address student “learning loss” is here, often with a focus on expanded summer learning programs, high-dose tutoring and expanded after-care programming. These...
Charter Schools
The Pandemic Shouldn’t Stop Us From Getting Our Kids to College
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors in the Class of 2021 have faced many challenges: remote learning, balancing school work and jobs to support their families, and keeping up with the...
Special Education
You'd Think We Would Stop Paddling Kids in School but You'd Be Wrong
The state has our hands tied. Kids are disrespectful and defiant. There’s absolutely nothing we can do to punish them that bothers them except spank them. Those are the words of Pollock Elementary...
student support
The Pandemic Windfall Must Support Students' Mental Health, Too
This fall, most students will return to school full time. But the kids are not alright. Students’ return to the classroom comes after more than a year in a crisis which left millions unemployed...
CRT
Since Critical Race Theory Is Being Called 'Indoctrination,' Let's Go There
I wanna have a heart to heart with my Black people real quick. Last week I found out Idaho passed a bill to ban the teaching of anything related to critical race theory (CRT) in public schools and...