Teaching

I recently had a chance to talk with The New Teacher Project’s Kenya Bradshaw. We talked about which school districts are doing things right, how to reach

In third grade, I remember learning about Martin Luther King. We listened to his “I Have A Dream Speech.” We read about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus B

My grandmother escaped the Nazis three days before they invaded Prague while much of her family did not. En route to America she and her family listened to

I’m just going to go ahead and say it: School reform is a civil rights issue, and it’s one that I can’t be moderate about. Sorry, not sorry. I’m referring

Have you ever heard of the achievement gap? Many minority students, such as African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans usually fall lower in test sc

Taiwan is an island nation of 21 million people that has owned a perch near the top of international education rankings for the past decade—far above the U

I never thought about how my college was going to be paid for. None of my friends wondered about how their colleges would be paid for. College payment was

Oprah Winfrey’s name has been buzzing (alongside #TimesUp) this week with speculation flying wildly from all corners about a potential run for president in

After nearly two decades in education, I’m still not certain what the term “reform” actually means. The concept itself is elusive, concurrently everywhere