Stories

As the Illinois Teacher of the Year, I meet fellow educators at events all the time. We exchange funny anecdotes about education in our respective communit

DonorsChoose.org, an organization that allows teachers to request classroom supplies and experiences for their students, is guilty of discriminating agains

Halfway through my senior year of high school, I found I didn’t have enough credits to graduate on time. Between boredom and an hourlong bus ride each morn

Three decades since the passage of the first charter school law, this movement of extreme promise has fallen out of favor with many of its original support

My personal story begins with my family. I was born the youngest of seven children to a migrant farming family. My parents’ education did not extend past t

The other day I found myself, just like all the other teachers in my school, leading a monthly character lesson. This one happened to be on empathy. My stu

By now we’ve all seen the headlines after the most recent U.S. Open in which Serena Williams lost to Naomi Osaka. Yet the headlines weren’t about the match

Outrage: Access Still Denied Last week, my mentor and sister in the struggle, Kenya Bradshaw, dropped a gem at the LEAP InnovatEd Summit that really made m

Much has been written about the negative impacts of suspending and expelling students—it leads to worse academic outcomes, increases the odds of students d