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California

6 Ways We Can Help Reverse COVID Learning Loss for English Learners

Twenty-one months have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared a national emergency. With a new school year underway, the United States (U.S.) public school system has not returned to its...

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Teaching

Your Thanksgiving Clip Art and Crafts Might Be Microaggressions. Here's How to Do Better.

In March, Dr. Seuss Enterprises decided to cease publication of six of the prolific writer's works due to his demeaning caricatures of non-white ethnicities. This ongoing discussion of racist...

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CRT

We'll Never Agree on CRT, but We Can All Agree We Want to Produce Students Who Do Good

Our world has been forever changed as a result of the pandemic as well as the racial unrest of 2020. We learned new ways of being — how to be alone, how to distance, how to properly wash our hands,...

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activism

While Others Fight the Education Wars of Yesteryear, We're Ready to Start #SeekingCommonGround

While all the drama around the pandemic and its fallout sucks the life out of schools and communities, far too many heavy-hitters in the education policy and politics continue to sit in their silos...

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CRT

Here's Why Black People Being Whipped at the Border Is Like the Public Education System

Look at this picture of a white man on a horse appearing to whip a Black man. And no, this isn’t from the year 1712. It’s from earlier this week — the United States of America, circa 2021....

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Charter Schools

Q&A: New Orleans Is Taking a New Approach to Find Its Next Superintendent

Ethan Ashley is the president of the Orleans Parish School Board, which regained full control of New Orleans public schools on July 1, 2018. New Orleans is the only school district in the U.S. with a...

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