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I had a job interview recently. Even though I am pretty well known for my work with older students I was interviewing for a K-2 special education classroom

Native students around the country still languish in failing schools and often face worse outcomes than their White, Black and Latino peers.

Often, there are instances in multicultural education that teachers are flat-out not ready for. Situations that can arise teaching low-income or students o

In 2015, I co-founded Kingsman Academy Public Charter School. We welcome all high school students and center those who are overage and under-credited, who

Every family should have the right to a good school for their kids. But it turns out that if you’re Black and low-income in Oakland, you have to organize a

In my current role as an assistant professor of practice at a graduate school of education, one of the things I try to impart to new teachers is the import

A couple weeks ago, I had one of those days. After writing a whole post about how nice my room is, a post that included pictures of the soft-lighting some

As parents dropping our children off at school, many of us may wonder, will they have a good day? Will they do their best? Will they learn lessons that pre

Outrage: Black Kids Are Dumb, Poor and Incapable of Success Do y’all remember the line from “The Color Purple,” “I’m poor, I’m Black…I may even be ugly.