opportunity gap
This Is What Education Activism Looks Like During COVID-19
When you go back in history and look at who was leading the charge in the fight for liberation, it was always a person—or a group of seemingly crazy but brave people—unafraid of the consequences...
COVID-19
My Kids Are Online All the Time Now And I Don’t Always Know What They’re Looking At
OK, I have a confession to make. I have not been as good at monitoring my children’s internet access as I should have been. If I had to grade myself, I would be C+. And that would have been enough...
student support
COVID-19 School Closures Shine a Light on the Disparities That Exist for First-Gen and Low-Income Students
With the imminent threat of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), colleges across the country shut their doors to over 100,000 students. Many students returned home, but many students—mostly first-generation and...
Diversity
How ‘Social Distancing’ Is Changing the Way We View Schools
Paradoxically enough, as Washington, D.C., has slid from mass school closures into social distancing and working from home toward increasingly likely shelter-in-place, my neighborhood is erupting...
equity
Now Is the Perfect Time for White Teachers to Do 'The Work' of Anti-Racism
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted, well, everything, but at times I find that I have more time to communicate, virtually if necessary, with family and friends, even over fraught topics. Example:...
equity
The Inequity Between Students Isn’t New, COVID-19 Is Just Bringing It to Light
During World War II, riding out the Blitz in his native London, theologian and fantasy author C. S. Lewis wrote, “The war creates no absolutely new situation; it simply aggravates the permanent human...