Achievement Gap
Let's Focus on Our Students' Health and Humanity, Not on 'Getting Back to Normal'
Jessica N. Ewalt, Ph.D., is an educator in the Gwinnett County Public School system. Her research focuses on the implications of critical race theory in high school social studies classrooms. Matthew...
School Funding
Donald Trump Will Never Give Us the Smart, Nuanced Conversation We Need About Going Back to School
As COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the end of the 2019-2020 school year, parents and politicians nationwide sang the praises of teachers across the country—and it only took a global pandemic and economic...
California
Parents, It's Way Past Time to Break Up With Traditional Education and School Funding
This pandemic is an opportunity to change not only how we educate children, but how we fund that education. Right now, school and district leaders are looking to Congress to save their budgets from...
School Funding
Schools Are Essential, So Let's Reopen the Right Way This Fall
This afternoon, President Donald Trump said, “We want to get our schools open. We want to get them open, quickly, beautifully in the fall.” I agree. We need children to go back to school in the fall....
equity
Let's Give Co-Teachers the Tools They Need to Make Classrooms More Equitable This Fall
Across the country, educators are mourning the loss of an unfinished year and wondering what student learning will look like in the fall. And yes, while it seems clear that there will be varying...
equity
This Moment Demands a New, Race-Conscious Approach to Education
All across the country confederate statues are coming down, schools and road names are changing too. In my home state, New Mexico, we’re beginning to address our statues, buildings and roads that...