Stories

Poverty

To All of the Educators, Love Not Money Will Close the Gap

I grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Toledo, Ohio. During my time in middle school, we did not have books or resources that made me believe that there were pathways out of the...

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Achievement Gap

Stop Scapegoating Charter Schools and Fix Schools That Are Really Failing Children

There is a crisis in California’s public education system. According to teachers unions and the NAACP, the crisis involves an attempted takeover of the public school system by greedy billionaires and...

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student support

I Did Not Want to Read Tom Rademacher's Book, But Then I Picked It Up and Couldn't Stop

At the advanced age of 20, I thought I knew what I liked in literature. It turns out, I was wrong. I’m not as passionate about education as I am about writing for television, so this internship was...

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Teaching

I’m the Crazy Mom Teachers Dread, But This One Won My Heart

I won’t forget the first day my son walked into his pre-K classroom in the fall of 2016. Filled with anxiety, I did the same thing I always do when control is out of my hands: approach the challenge...

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Teaching

My Students Think That ‘Being an Author Isn’t Really for Black People'

Recently, I worked with a group of middle school students on an extended-day literary magazine publication. We discussed potential careers that the experience could prepare them for. They answered...

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California

Yes, We Train Like Doctors Because Becoming a Teacher Is That Serious

It was my first day of the student teaching portion of the UCLA IMPACT (Inspiring Minds through a Professional Alliance of Community Teachers) and my mentor teacher was introducing me to other...

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