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Jackson’s Maisie Brown Links Social and Environmental Justice

Since her early teens, Maisie Brown has been using her digital media savvy to fight for racial equity: from joining the campaign to remove a Confederate emblem from the Mississippi state flag to...

Charter Schools

Education Needs A Radical Middle

Culture wars from the fringes, preaching to their loudest bases, who do not reflect the opinions of the majority of American voters, are co-opting our TV screens and social media feeds. In one...

Gen Z Chief Devon Parfait Fights to Save His People’s Land

Chief Devon Parfait’s earliest memories revolve around the Louisiana bayous of Terrebonne Parish, where his people, the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, have lived for nearly...

anti-racism

Children Paying the Price for Culture Wars and Witch Hunts in Public Education

Personal attacks on educators and others working in public education by political extremists have become all too common in recent years — and our children are paying the price. Our children are being...

equity

Rocketship Grows Educators Who Love Their Students Like My Granny Loved Me

I firmly believe that my granny saved my life. After being homeless and jumping from shelter to shelter for a period of time in my preteen years, my granny took in my siblings and me while my mother...

Charter Schools

Can a Community Charter Go National? Arizona Autism Charter School Says Yes

“It’s very easy for a child on the spectrum, even one with the mildest case of autism, to get lost and overwhelmed in the mainstream public school system,” says Kerrie Mallory-Thompson. That’s why,...