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My wife and I are educators working at the same school. On a daily basis we navigate microaggressions in the workplace; unwillingness to use our married na

I first experienced homelessness with my family, then on my own. I was born to a single mother and a father who was absent because of post-traumatic stress

Just this year alone, Kanye West has said slavery was a “choice,” Roseanne Barr compared former Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape, Starbucks closed d

The day another kid tried to choke my daughter, it would have been easy to go full-force Mama Bear and demand a suspension. But it wouldn’t have solved the

Editor’s Note: This is a condensed version of Samantha Smylie’s speech to the 2018 graduating class at John Hope High School in Chicago. Hope is one of the

It’s June. The classroom walls are bare. The grit outlined empty spaces left behind by charts, posters, reading lists and student work jut out starkly agai

While much of the education reform world was convening in Austin for the annual charter schools conference this week, I snuck off to Albuquerque for the Ne

As we come to the end of another school year, I’ve been thinking a great deal about the teachers and parents who have dared to demand something different i

Outrage: Too Many Kids on the Street There are 1.3 million students in America without homes. Nate Bowling teaches 12 of them. I think I’m plugged into wha