It was late August, and suddenly, the moment I’d been anticipating for years had arrived. My husband and I were dropping off our baby, Nyanja, for her freshman year at Lafayette College. The bed was...
The spin never stops when it comes to education and it goes into overdrive with the close of a decade. Amidst all the hype of a lost decade and the need for humility from education reformers,...
About six years ago, my spouse and I found a home we could afford in a nice working-class neighborhood, near our families, with decent schools. At the time the schools were not the absolute best, but...
Around the country, schools that initially impress observers with high overall test scores often lose their luster upon closer examination, when inequities in achievement by race and income become...
One of the hardest weeks of the school year is the week before winter break. The turn up is real. Students start acting as if you didn’t spend the first few weeks of the school year forcing them to...
