Ivy Box currently serves as the chief executive officer of Voice T.H.E. Movement, Inc., which hosts an annual empowermen
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What White Educators Can Do to Create Space for More Black Teachers
Last year, several of my talented, dedicated colleagues of color announced they were leaving our school, and the news hit some students hard. “Black teache
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Just Give Me the Facts, Don’t Tell Me Where My Child Should Go to School
Hard decisions are not new to me, but in the past seven years, decisions about where to send my daughter for elementary and middle school have been among m
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Let’s Cancel Roseanne and Then Cancel These Haters Who Want to Block Our Way to Better Schools
Hope: #ByeRoseanne in the Classroom Roseanne is the second person in TV history to get fired on her day off (people who have seen the movie “Friday” know w
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Nice to See the Right and the Left Agree on Something, Too Bad They’re Both Wrong
Two former U.S. secretaries of education, Margaret Spellings, who served under President George W. Bush, and Arne Duncan, who served under President Barack
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Roseanne Isn’t the Only One Who Needs to Be Cancelled
America could really use some role models and yet somehow, time and time again, entertainment and media find a way to reinvent and elevate the mean-spirite
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One of My Most Conservative Students Shares What It’s Like to Be in My Class
My learning this year has been greatly assisted by a number of students willing to be honest with me. One of them, Alec, is the kind of kid teachers love t
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I’m a Cambodian Kid From Compton and Because of My Mom, I Graduated From College
As a young man growing up on the East Side of Compton, California, I never quite understood my place in my community or society. I identified as an Asian A
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Does Standardized Testing Help Students?
Every state uses standardized tests to find out how students in public schools are doing. Federal law requires it. But why? And how do standardized tests a
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