Stories

A Dress Code for Parents Has to Be at the Bottom of the List of Education Priorities

Some of these school administrators have their priorities messed up! Just last week, two students were expelled from their Christian school 30 days before the end of the year because the pastor...

Charter Schools

You Can’t Have Quality Educational Opportunities and Cap School Choice

I’ll just come out and say it: You can’t be for expanding access to quality educational opportunities and be in favor of capping charter schools. You can’t malign the supposed cherry-picking...

Charter Schools

This Charter Leader Shares Hard-Earned Lessons About Working With Teachers Unions

I read the new CRPE report, “An Unlikely Bargain: Why Charter School Teachers Unionize and What Happens When They Do” fresh off 10 months of negotiations with the union that has represented schools...

Jay-Z Is Going on Tour With High School Students to Visit HBCUs

Beyoncé’s not the only member of her family going all out for higher education. Her husband, Jay-Z, is showing how important historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are for Black...

activism

Teaching Our Students to Save the Planet May Be the Most Important Lesson We Can Teach

Miko Vergun, 17, lives in the Portland, Oregon suburb of Beaverton. She fears she may never be able to visit her native Marshall Islands in the remote Pacific Ocean before they disappear beneath the...

Teaching

New EPA Proposal on Pollution Could Lead to More Students With Asthma Missing School

How could my students succeed if they were not able to come to class? It was a question I used to struggle with constantly. Prior to entering medical school, I worked as a middle school teacher in...