Stories

Women Educators Who Have Shaped My Teaching Career: Dawn Watts-Bolds

May 18th, 2006 will mark the day I completed my undergraduate education at Temple University. It was a proud day. My entire family was in attendance to bask in the moment. Graduation was the...

Teaching

Racial Violence Can Follow Students Into the Classroom–Here’s how Tenderness Can Make a Difference

N’Kengé Robertson, Chalkbeat Detroit This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a product of the Detroit public school system, where I...

anti-racism

Parents Storm D.C., Tell the GOP Whose Rights They Forgot in Their “Parents Bill of Rights”

This week, 75 parent activists from the National Parents Union, representing dozens of states, descended on Capitol Hill. They came to tell lawmakers the truth about H.R. 5, dubbed the “Parents Bill...

The So-Called Parents Bill of Rights Recycles a Dangerous Playbook

A fast-tracked, Republican-backed, federal Parents Bill of Rights is scheduled to go to the House floor today. At first glance, the bill seems innocuous. But it is the latest salvo in a culture war...

4 Post-Pandemic Strategies to Keep Parents and Schools Connected

Parent-school relationships have always been a vital part of student success, but during the COVID pandemic, when schools moved to remote instruction, communication between parents and educators...

Social Emotional Learning

POLL: Public School Parents Want SEL in Schools, Divisive Parents Out

New polling released today by the National Parents Union (NPU) shows substantial majorities of public school parents want an end to parent-led censorship in schools and a stop to violent threats...