Stories

Betsy DeVos and Her 'Grassroots' Warriors Want To Defund Public Education

Even Betsy DeVos thinks her years in office were a waste of time. A keynote speaker at Moms for Liberty’s Joyful Warrior National Summit last weekend in Tampa, DeVos co-opted police reform activists’...

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Social Emotional Learning

It’s Not Indoctrination to Help People Grow Through SEL

“Stop crying.” How often did some of us—many of us?—hear that as children? How many of us have said it to our own children? How many of us have heard—or said?—“stop crying, or I’ll give you something...

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Learning

Little Ones Need Summer Learning and Fun. Here's How to Give Them Both.

When the mercury rises, that’s supposed to be family time, relaxation time, playtime for America’s students. It can also be a time of profound learning for the youngest children—if adults approach...

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anti-racism

Betsy DeVos Is Back! She’ll Be Talking With Moms for Liberty on Saturday.

Betsy is back. And she’s making new friends. Trump-era Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will join the far-right group Moms for Liberty at what they’ve dubbed the Joyful Warrior National Summit this...

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anti-racism

My High School Never Talked About Race, and Oh Man Did I Miss Out

I grew up in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; an incredibly white kid in an almost entirely white school. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the education I got in those schools, an education...

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anti-racism

If We Truly Want Equitable Schools, We're Going to Have to Work Together

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” -Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of...

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