Lady Gaga stepped in this week to provide an enormous mental health boost to Chicago's students. And this isn't the first time she's used her platform to help to help struggling kids. In fact, the...
It's time for charter school adversaries to wake up and realize they’re fighting an incredible chance to foster diversity in education in a way that promotes the liberty of individual students and...
When COVID-19 hit New Jersey in March 2020, Efe Odeleye, the co-director of Achievers Early College Prep Charter School, was faced with a moral imperative: in order to best serve the public charter’s...
For the last 15 years, it has been my honor to support Springfield International Charter School (SICS), first as a history teacher, then for the last 11 years, as its principal. As is true for so...
I am a proud daughter of a Black man raised in the South and a Japanese woman raised in rural Japan. My childhood home was a magical blend of James Brown’s I’m Black and I’m Proud and living the...
As educators, we know that kids cannot learn if they don’t feel safe and supported at school. During the past two years, this truth was at its most visceral. Social-emotional learning (SEL)—which not...