Have you ever celebrated or heard of World Peace Day? Well, World Peace Day is an International Day of Peace organized by the United Nations, which is on September 21. My school, The Academy for...
Whenever people ask me what I miss most about my classroom days, I often struggle between two specific memories: my days as a National Council of La Raza (NCLR) service-learning teacher and the many...
I've struggled with learning disabilities my whole life. Not the disability, but being labeled as someone with a disability. I had never felt stupid before, but for some reason getting “special”...
L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy first came to my attention at this spring’s Education Writers Association (EWA) national conference in Boston, where he served as a panelist talking about school integration...
Parenting is defined as, “the raising of a child by its parents.” I read this to mean both parents working together to raise a single child properly. And for many kids, that’s exactly what happens....