How to Get Rid of Low Expectations for Students of Color? Anti-Bias Training Might Be the Answer

Kudos to the Seattle Times’ Claudio Rowe and NBC’s Sylvia Cunningham for their coverage of a recent Johns Hopkins study on differences in teachers’ expecta

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How We Can Say to Students of Color: ‘You’re Welcome Here. I Believe in You.’

Minnesota’s state teachers union recently produced a report that calls for action on an issue that hits home for me as a teacher of color: increasing teach

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Here’s Why April 1 Is a Big Day for Chicago’s Public Charter Schools, Too

All eyes are on Chicago Public Schools (CPS) as the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) plans for a one-day strike on Friday. Parents are scrambling to find place

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We Needed an Academy Awards for Our Teachers and the Global Teacher Prize Is Doing Just That

In a July 2015 skit for Comedy Central, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key, of “Key & Peele,” pretend to be anchors for the fictional channel “TeachingCen

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A Letter From New York Teachers in Support of John King as Education Secretary

We, a group of New York-based educators, share enthusiastic support for the appointment of John B. King Jr. as secretary of education, a committed and succ

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Why Repealing Common Core Would Be a Terrible Move for Massachusetts Students and Teachers

Right now, in English classrooms at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School our students are doing amazing work. They are lawyers putting Lady Macbeth on tri

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12 Teachers’ Tweets Show Why They #LoveTeaching

This week teachers across the country educators celebrated why they #LoveTeaching. As someone looking from the outside in, it was awesome to witness the su

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Stop Using Parents as an Excuse Not to Teach Our Children

Truly achieving equity requires us to radically rethink how we can give every child, no matter what their family circumstances, equal educational opportunity.

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Structural Reforms Are Necessary But Not Sufficient for Turning Around Our Lowest Performing Schools

I am the principal of Cherokee Elementary, a Memphis school where, not long ago, only 14 percent of students were proficient in math, and just 16 percent i

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