equity

I embraced education reform to strengthen schools, not to weaken unions, so I am not especially happy about the Supreme Court’s ruling in Janus vs. AFSCME.

Schools are where we’re supposed to find equal opportunity. Instead we find a sorting system that magnifies inequality. In fact, schools ration out opportu

Our inability as a nation to engage in difficult conversations about race has left us with a lack of agreement on how to define equity. Yes, equity is abou

Those of us in the education and learning fields are focused on developing ways to reduce the persistent educational inequities that harm low-income studen

A few weeks ago, I visited the classroom of Stefan Lawrence, a high school English teacher at Carver High School in Columbus, Georgia. Although I only had

I come from nothing. I was reminded of this at a tense board meeting in which a member from the community, upset with my opinion on something, shouted out,

Not long ago I was in Wilmington, Delaware—reporting another story—and I visited Academia Antonia Alonso, a two-way dual immersion charter school where ove

If I had money to wager, I’d bet that if you’re a female teacher, this has happened to you. You’re in a meeting and you say something smart. A few minutes

I remember the first time I spoke up at a national conference in front of my colleagues. We were at a national meeting of a few hundred urban special educa