Stories

anti-racism

Black Male Teachers Were My Father Figures, And We Need More of Them

With the spring semester upon us, districts nationwide still struggle with teacher shortages. In New Jersey, it’s a crisis that is making it harder to hire and retain Black and Latino teachers....

5 Ways to Build Community Engagement in Schools

It’s pretty difficult to understate the importance of community involvement in schools. At KIPP, when we talk about “Family and community engagement in school,” we’re talking about schools, families,...

Rewrite attendance laws to promote learning, not seat time

Two depressing developments of the past couple years have given birth to a radical idea: Let’s rethink state “compulsory attendance” laws so that they’re phrased in terms of kids learning rather than...

anti-racism

AAPI Heritage Month: Cross-Racial Coalitions Provide Blueprint for Support

Almost 30 years ago at the University of California, San Diego, the late Chicana feminist and activist Elizabeth Martinez coined the term Oppression Olympics during a discussion with Angela Davis...

Math

Let’s Create a Mathematics Framework That Works for All Students

My name is Jo Boaler. I am a mathematics education professor at Stanford University. I was one of five authors of California’s proposed new mathematics framework. Unfortunately, the debate about the...

EdTech

Education is One Area Where ‘Domestic Realists’ Agree. Let’s Build on That

The education culture wars on issues like critical race theory and how to teach history create a false narrative and collective illusion on K-12 issues among Americans. The stubborn fact is that...