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equity

The Real Cost of Equity Backlash in Schools Is Student Safety

With the arrival of the second Trump administration this January, a host of new dynamics and realities will emerge in education politics. The incoming president has made it known that he intends to...

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Diversity

The Anti-DEI Crowd is Anti-Black Educator

Every child deserves an excellent education—every child. That’s a principle, presumably, no one would argue with, and I’ve spent my entire career working toward it. Yet, critiques of culturally...

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equity

Back To The Same Old Dusty, Rigid School System — So Families Are Opting Out

We’re back in a new school year, and I’m struck by how let down Black and brown students and communities have been in recent years. Let me explain. Promises were made to Black and brown children...

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Charter Schools

Educational Inequity Is a Matter of Civil Rights in 2024

"You know very well who you are Don’t let ‘em hold you down Reach for the stars" —Notorious BIG When I first decided to become a teacher, I was a junior at Rutgers University. I remember realizing...

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School Choice

Education Department Debate Is About Creating Anti-LGBTQ+ Worldview

Fact: MAGA Republicans want to abolish the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). It’s one of the few items on the to-do list of Trump’s Agenda 47 and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 (AKA “Agenda...

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Diversity

DEI Is The New N-Word

The terms/acronyms “woke,” “DEI,” and “CRT” are used in a derogatory way, interchangeably, as a coded language to signify or designate a Black person as either Black or the N-word. Political...

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