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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
equity
How Open Educational Resources Can Boost Equity in the Wake of the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the profound inequities in education, especially for Black and brown students. The upheaval of the past year presents not only an opportunity, but...