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...
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...
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...
