Stories

I Didn't Realize How Lucky I Was to Have Mr. Emmanuel as My Teacher

Let's recruit, celebrate, and keep Black Male Teachers! As a little girl, I attended Kennedy Child Development Center, an extension of the San Diego Unified School District's early childhood...

Public School Leaders Go Back to School...in Charters

While some people try to draw a bright line between charters and district-led public schools, parents and many educators see things differently. This fall, 15 new charter schools around the country...

California

My Students Deserve to Share Their Stories On Their Own Terms

I found "The Bluest Eye" on my own in my older sister’s classroom books. I was in ninth grade. I can’t remember what I thought when I first saw it. Curious. I opened it up and I didn’t understand...

student achievement

Don’t Buy Into the Hype Around Learning Loss

I get it: “learning loss” is scary. Considering the unprecedented overuse of the word “unprecedented” to describe what our nation’s K-12 education system has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, we...

student achievement

How Public Schools Fail to Recognize Black Prodigies

Amid numerous articles about how Black students lag behind others in educational achievement, occasionally you may hear about a young Black “prodigy” who got accepted into college at an early age....

bias

Restorative Justice Isn't Just for the Students, It's for the Adults Too

Let’s face it: Our public schools are, in the main, alienating and repressive institutions whose function it is to provide our society with an army of docile, even if skilled, workers whose labors...