If You Think Excellence Can't Exist in All-Black Schools, You're Tripping

If You Think Excellence Can’t Exist in All-Black Schools, You’re Tripping

As a child, youth, and adult, I have had the absolute pleasure of being surrounded by Mamas and Babas who upheld Black liberation in thought and action. Ma

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How Anti-Blackness Can Show Up in Our Teaching and We Don't Even Recognize It

How Racism in “A Christmas Story” Relates to My Process to Unlearn Anti-Blackness

Just before winter break, my various timelines were awash with pictures of a young man forced to have his hair cut by a wrestling referee. You’ve no doubt

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I Took a Year Off Work to Learn About Dyslexia Because My Son's Teachers Couldn't Teach Him How to Read

I Took a Year Off Work to Learn About Dyslexia Because My Son’s Teachers Couldn’t Teach Him How to Read

Why, for so many, is access to an education that recognizes the science of reading limited to private programs? My son experienced this as a reader struggl

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Showing Up and Doing Well in School Should Lead to Better Opportunity But It’s Not Always True

Showing Up and Doing Well in School Should Lead to Better Opportunity But It’s Not Always True

Low-income and minority students are not being challenged nearly as much as their White peers in high school, according to a new study produced by TNTP, a

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Kamala Harris Just Wrote a Children's Book

Kamala Harris Just Wrote a Children’s Book

There’s an old cliche about Spider-Man: He’s arguably pop culture’s favorite superhero because his mask covers his whole face. This means, as a great many

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My Student Asked Me If I Was Racist So I Told the Truth and Said Yes

My Student Asked Me If I Was Racist So I Told the Truth and Said Yes

“Mr. Wright, are you racist?” My West Philadelphia classroom, which had been filled with the sounds of shuffling papers, squeaking chairs, and the quintess

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What 'Surviving R. Kelly' Means for My Black Daughters and the Schools They Attend

What ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Means for My Black Daughters and the Schools They Attend

As the Black mother of two Black girls, I am always acutely aware of how Black girls are harmed in this society. However, there are some moments in America

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XQ’s 19th Super School Is an Oakland Diverse-by-Design Charter High School Founded by a Local Teacher

XQ’s 19th Super School Is an Oakland Diverse-by-Design Charter High School Founded by a Local Teacher

Today, Latitude High School becomes the 19th XQ Super School, and receives a five-year, $10 million grant to further its innovative work deepening students

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Schools Don't Need to Ban Homework, They Just Need to Make It Better

Schools Don’t Need to Ban Homework, They Just Need to Make It Better

School districts around the country are doing away with homework, according to the latest education headlines. But research clearly shows that the solution

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