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If It's Important for Girls to Lead, Let's Make It a Priority at School

Coronavirus has given us little to celebrate. My hope is that one of the silver linings during this crisis is that all students, but especially girls, have the opportunity to see women in positions...

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Now Is the Time to Reimagine Education for Students of Color

Everybody’s waiting on the day when things will go back to normal. Not me. Don’t get me wrong—I’m all the way over COVID-19. Tired of talking about it and tired of living it. I know all Americans...

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We Can't Return to Status Quo When This Pandemic Is Over

Just by way of introduction, let me begin this post the way I have begun most conversations in the past month: I am both exhausted and privileged to be so. Privileged because I have a job that, so...

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opportunity gap

Our Kids Can't Go Back to School Right Now, So We Need to Make Sure They're Connected

Once again, our kids and communities are going to be hit hardest when the last respiratory droplet of the coronavirus dries up. That’s what I thought to myself recently while standing in front of...

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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...

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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...

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