Stories

School Choice

Let's Cancel Roseanne and Then Cancel These Haters Who Want to Block Our Way to Better Schools

Hope: #ByeRoseanne in the Classroom Roseanne is the second person in TV history to get fired on her day off (people who have seen the movie “ Friday” know what I’m talking about). But her time...

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anti-racism

Roseanne Isn’t the Only One Who Needs to Be Cancelled

America could really use some role models and yet somehow, time and time again, entertainment and media find a way to reinvent and elevate the mean-spirited and the unhinged. Roseanne Barr is no...

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Achievement Gap

Nice to See the Right and the Left Agree on Something, Too Bad They're Both Wrong

Two former U.S. secretaries of education, Margaret Spellings, who served under President George W. Bush, and Arne Duncan, who served under President Barack Obama, think the movement to improve public...

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California

I’m a Cambodian Kid From Compton and Because of My Mom, I Graduated From College

As a young man growing up on the East Side of Compton, California, I never quite understood my place in my community or society. I identified as an Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI), but rarely...

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Student Voice

One of My Most Conservative Students Shares What It’s Like to Be in My Class

My learning this year has been greatly assisted by a number of students willing to be honest with me. One of them, Alec, is the kind of kid teachers love to have. He will take a random idea or...

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Poverty

Why We've Got to Talk About Race If We Want to Achieve Education Equity

Our inability as a nation to engage in difficult conversations about race has left us with a lack of agreement on how to define equity. Yes, equity is about closing achievement gaps between White...

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