Here Are 3 Things the Candidates Should Be Debating But Won't

Here Are 3 Things the Candidates Should Be Debating But Won’t

The lights are ready to beam bright, the NBC News graphics team is probably demanding raises after working on introductions for 20 candidates and Miami-are

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How Barron Gunnings Is Shifting the Narrative for Black Male Students

How Barron Gunnings Is Shifting the Narrative for Black Male Students

Barron Gunnings is a thoughtful, passionate young man currently entering his third year at the College of Wooster. He’s someone who “never felt the need to

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I Felt Invisible in School, But I Teach So My LGBTQ+ Students Can Have the Chance to Be Seen

I Felt Invisible in School, But I Teach So My LGBTQ+ Students Can Have the Chance to Be Seen

If you look up the word “visibility” in the dictionary, you get quite a few definitions including, “The ability to see or be seen.” When I was 12 years old

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To My Trans Child, It's Time Your Teachers Matched Your Bravery

To My Trans Child, It’s Time Your Teachers Matched Your Bravery

When our pronoun buttons came in the mail, you put two on your backpack. A couple of days later, you decided to wear one on your shirt: he/him/his. You did

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Starting a Debate Team Helped Unlock My Students' Potential and It Can Do the Same for Yours

Starting a Debate Team Helped Unlock My Students’ Potential and It Can Do the Same for Yours

After teaching middle and high school history for almost 15 years, I believe deeply that rigorous history education has the potential to empower young peop

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3 Tips for a Great Summer With Your Child With Special Needs or Disabilities

3 Tips for a Great Summer With Your Child With Special Needs or Disabilities

School is over and summer is here! It is during the summer that I am most aware of how much work teachers do. Teachers, we love you! But while teachers are

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White Teachers Working to Create Equitable Schools Must Accept That Race Impacts How We Teach

White Teachers Working to Create Equitable Schools Must Accept That Race Impacts How We Teach

I remember the moment clearly. It was my sophomore year of college and we were in a crowded cafeteria. A friend asked me to identify the partner I was work

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Ava Duvernay’s ‘When They See Us’ Is Unfolding Right in Our Schools

Ava Duvernay’s ‘When They See Us’ Is Unfolding Right in Our Schools

When you see them, they may be laughing, talking loudly, listening to music that is not your music. They may be dressed in clothes that are not your clothe

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There's a Difference Between a 'Good' School and Choosing Whiteness and Wealth

There’s a Difference Between a ‘Good’ School and Choosing Whiteness and Wealth

It’s nearly summer, and while for most that means the end of a school year, for many it also means transition. Preschoolers transition to kindergarten, ele

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