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Poverty

Coffee Break: Colorado's Parents Are a Force to Be Reckoned With and This Organization Is Making Sure We Know It

If the founders of Transform Education Now (TEN) have their way, the parents of Colorado’s school kids will be the newest force to be reckoned with in 2018 and beyond. Rooted in the belief that...

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Mental Health

We Need School Discipline Reform But We Also Need to Protect Teachers

One of my second-graders, Tony, generally entered the classroom happy. But it took a very small thing to make him furious. Tony, who had been diagnosed with anger impulsive disorder, would get angry...

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Charter Schools

Black Children Being Harvested for Profit and Charitable Rappers are Fueling My Hope and Outrage This Week

Outrage: Black Children Are Being Farmed Like Cotton “Black children are the new cotton, people are trying to harvest them for their per pupil funding."—Words spoken by Chris Stewart at SXSW EDU....

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Charter Schools

Illinois' Race for Governor Is a Competition on Who Can Be the Most Silent on Education

Here in Illinois our governor will either be a Democratic billionaire businessman philanthropist or a Republican multi-millionaire businessman philanthropist. Both have a long record of investing in...

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Politics

I Refuse to Bury Another Student

Yakez Semark was a bright, warm, charismatic 20-year-old whose life ended several weeks ago due to gun violence. He was also one of my first students. When one of his former classmates notified me...

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Parents

Coffee Break: De’Shawn Wright on Being Destined for Public Service and Finding Purpose in Education

De’Shawn Wright has spent more than 15 years serving in senior leadership posts in government and the nonprofit sector and is a part of the Future Chiefs program with Chiefs for Change. He’s an...

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