Stories

School Funding

Managing Through the Noise: How Superintendents See Shifts in the Federal Role in Education

In May 2025, we spoke with about a dozen superintendents across the country—and others who work closely with them—about challenges stemming from recent national events, including a much smaller...

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Politics

The Revolution Will Be Literate: Why We Must Reclaim Truth, Science, and Our Children’s Minds

I’ve spent two decades obsessing about creating better schools. I’ve fought for books, for assessments, for standards, for options—for kids. And lately, I feel like I’m screaming into the void....

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School Choice

We Are the System Now—And We Don't Need Permission

For a very long time, I’ve beaten you over the head with a deceptively simple question that ought to animate every education policy debate in America: How are the children? Not how are the politics....

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equity

How the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ Betrays Black America

My grandmother’s doctor visits are not political. The cost of my monthly prescriptions doesn’t care if the Senate swings red or blue. And yet, both are now caught in the crosshairs of one of the most...

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Politics

ICE Raids in Schools Yet Another Trauma for Kids Who’ve Already Had Too Many

The world is a messy place. Most of us figure this out by the time we hit adulthood: However compelling our convictions, however good our intentions, humans are constantly tripping into one another....

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Diversity

This World Should Break Your Heart

Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people....

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