Stories

Don't Be Fooled by the Headlines, Common Core Is a Roadmap to Success for Parents, Teachers and Students

In recent years, the majority of states have adopted the Common Core State Standards for K-12 mathematics and English language arts. Even though these standards have been in place and actively used...

Charter Schools

The NAACP’s Demands of Charter Schools Aren’t About Educational Quality

If you want to kill a good idea just set impossible conditions for its success and it will die trying to meet them. That’s the apparent strategy behind the resolution adopted by the National...

Achievement Gap

Our High Schools Can't Afford To Ignore These Mediocre PISA Scores

I recently spoke to a handful of young women at a high school in North Carolina who had taken an international test that is getting a lot of attention—the Programme for International Student...

anti-racism

To Know the Black Community Is to Know How Thirsty We Are for Better Schools

I often wonder what it will take for Black children in our communities to attend high-performing schools. According to many anti-school choice opponents, the only choices that Black, Brown, and poor...

Student Voice

I'm Fed Up With the Dakota Access Pipeline So My School Helped Me Write a Speech About It

Christina Torres was inspired to write this speech on the Dakota Access Pipeline after completing coursework influenced by the Common Core State Standards at the Academy for Global Citizenship. Click...

U.S. Department of Education

Right Now We Are Numb. But We Will Rise and Fight for Kids.

The election of Donald Trump has evoked pain and emotion for so many. I read their blog posts. I watch them protest. I see their tears. And yet living and breathing in a Black and female body in...

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