Stories

Ya Don’t Stop: A Review of the 2023 HipHopEd Conference

In honor of Black Music Month, I’d be remiss if I didn’t take time to recognize the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop and the significant impact that the culture has had on my life as a student and an...

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anti-racism

Anti-Racist Education: The N-Word is Not a Word for School

Editor’s Note: This article contains a racist term quoted in a poem. As a Black educator, every year, and I mean every single year, I am asked by a teacher, usually racially white, what they should...

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Student Voice

Why The Student Voice In The Classroom Immediately Improves Education

Mya Gooden, a sixth grader at Salk Elementary School in Clinton Township, wrote me a letter several years ago as part of a class assignment. As the founder of a curriculum company, I talk with many...

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Charter Schools

What if Two Types of Education Reform-Charter Schools and Education Savings Accounts-Merged?

The two dominant forms of school choice, charter schools and private school vouchers, have moved on parallel tracks since the 1990s. Now, the emergence of education savings accounts could bring these...

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Literacy

Science of Reading vs. Whole Language War Rages On; Students Lose

Johnathon stared at me. I stared back at him. With no words spoken between us, we communicated with only our eyes; my tutoring student and I locked in a battle of wills that we were both determined...

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Social Emotional Learning

Weave Social Emotional Learning into the Fabric of the School Day

As the rates of anxiety and depression increase among students, teachers experience burnout, and mental health professionals disappear from schools, it’s clear: Our schools are at a tipping point....

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