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3 Ways Teachers Can Lead Beyond the Classroom This Year

For the first nine years of my teaching career, my focus was within the four walls of my classroom. Everything I did had a finite goal of “How can I be better for my students today?” Many teachers...

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California

America's Students Have to Be the Hope We Can Believe In

I went through all of high school and most of college with President Barack Obama. I am part of a micro-generation of Americans whose notions of politics and what it means to be American were...

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Parents

Coffee Break: Lori Barden on What Works Best for Schools and Why More Parents Should Run for Political Office

Lori Barden is a parent of two school-aged boys, Tanner (7) and Will (12), who attend an intentionally diverse public charter school in Rhode Island. She just completed a run to become District 59...

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Diversity

I Was at the 'Hamilton' Performance With Mike Pence and I Saw Something You Didn't See on Twitter

By the time I was running down 46th Street to the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City this past Friday night, I’d been consuming all things "Hamilton" for months. I had the book. I’d watched...

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Charter Schools

Would a Republican Government Be Good for School Kids? I'm Skeptical.

Now that Republicans are running Congress, the White House and two-thirds of the states, we will find out whether conservative government will be good for school kids. If their record on issues like...

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Charter Schools

3 Reasons I'm Missing Teachers Union Legend Al Shanker Right About Now

Three recent experiences have served to remind me how much I miss—and how much the country and the cause of better education were diminished by the loss of— the late Albert Shanker, who passed away...

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