anti-racism

Malia had failed my ninth-grade English class for three consecutive quarters. She hadn’t come close to passing once. It wasn’t for lack of ability; her wri

Dion Steele, principal of Urban Prep Academies’ Englewood campus, says he has “500 sons, and three daughters at home.” Urban Prep is the nation’s first cha

I’ve had bad principals. In fact, it’s pretty hard to find a teacher who hasn’t. The job of a principal is almost aggressively impossible—to act as an inst

In the world of education, few things are sadder or more ill-advised than suspending kids as young as 4 years old from school for behavioral infractions. Y

This May, I had the great honor of graduating from Morehouse College, the school of my dreams. I will never forget the day I knew that I wanted to go to Mo

School reform advocate Derrell Bradford and policy writer Andy Rotherham hit on it. Illinois education writer Tracy Dell’Angela has a blog focused on it. T

“We pledge that in four years we will be better than we are today.” That’s what the members of the Baker College Prep class of 2017 recently promised at th

As a Black male born into poverty and raised by a single father who was a high school dropout, I used to believe that my fate was already determined. Growi

For the most part, what states measure for school quality has already been decided by federal law under the Every Student Succeeds Act. Every state, for ex