It’s Time to Put Early Math on Everyone’s Radar, Especially for Dual Language Learners

It’s Time to Put Early Math on Everyone’s Radar, Especially for Dual Language Learners

Most parents understand early literacy is important. Data show they are already doing the basics to support literacy, like reading to children regularly. Y

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School Boards Have Too Much Power They Aren’t Using to Fix Education

School Boards Have Too Much Power They Aren’t Using to Fix Education

Considered me triggered. Again. This past Sunday my 8 Black Hands crew did a show on the missing importance of school boards, and then this article pops up

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Q&A: Chris Cerf on Fighting COVID Learning Loss With Great Teaching

Q&A: Chris Cerf on Fighting COVID Learning Loss With Great Teaching

Last March schools across the country closed and typical live instruction morphed into erratic meetings on Zoom. Many of us assumed this was a short-term s

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The COVID-19 Attendance Crisis Is Bigger Than You Think

The COVID-19 Attendance Crisis Is Bigger Than You Think

Much of the public discussion about pandemic education has focused on two major questions: How are families handling remote learning? What does safe reopen

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Rev. Sharpton: Education Problems Are a ‘Five-Alarm’ Fire

Rev. Sharpton: Education Problems Are a ‘Five-Alarm’ Fire

Now would be a good time to listen to Rev. Al Sharpton. You didn’t see that coming. Me, of all people, pointing to a left-of-center Civil Rights leader on

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Vote Local Day 5: Care About Schools? Vote Local. (ft. Alina Adams)

Vote Local Day 5: Care About Schools? Vote Local. (ft. Alina Adams)

https://www.facebook.com/246491525549550/videos/3437224209696920 Yes, there is a big national election happening. But if you really want to improve policy

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I Thought Vouchers Were Wrong, But Now I Realize They Helped My Son

I Thought Vouchers Were Wrong, But Now I Realize They Helped My Son

Recently I wrote that a residency hearing with two children, Kayla and Tasha, represented to me our deeply-embedded structural inequities in education that

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Khaliah Fitchett on Going From Handcuffs to Running for Congress

Khaliah Fitchett on Going From Handcuffs to Running for Congress

One afternoon in March 2010, Khaliah Fitchette, a 16-year-old student at Newark’s University High School, was riding home on a NJ Transit bus with her frie

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Vote Local Day 4: Can You Trust Parties and Politicians? (ft. Zakiya Sankara-Jabar)

Vote Local Day 4: Can You Trust Parties and Politicians? (ft. Zakiya Sankara-Jabar)

https://www.facebook.com/246491525549550/videos/1278683725823697 In a politically polarized nation, public trust in government is on the decline. How do we

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