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In 2015, I started a three-year journey to acquire my doctorate in educational leadership. On top of going back to graduate school, I was a high school pri

Let’s get this out of the way. Mark Twain’s famous joke: “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” Hardy, h

Many schools are preparing for their first conferences with parents. Unlike Back-to-School Night where parents receive general information about the school

You know what? It’s a real shame that people can’t seem to separate politics from public service. Because if one more person comes on one of my social medi

As a parent of a child with special needs, I pay a lot of money to provide the services that she needs to be successful in school. A lot. A lot of money, a

First, a 30-minute student-led parent-teacher conference with one child’s homeroom teacher. Then, six five-minute conferences with another son’s individual

This week marks the 40th anniversary of President Jimmy Carter signing the legislation that authorized him to create the U.S. Department of Education (ED).

[pullquote position=”right”]Our students want to know more than we are telling them.[/pullquote] I teach a class in which my predominantly White juniors an

Wherever you exist on the political spectrum, the U.S. Department of Education’s work has never been more relevant to the lives of families and students, a