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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...