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Two former U.S. secretaries of education, Margaret Spellings, who served under President George W. Bush, and Arne Duncan, who served under President Barack

America could really use some role models and yet somehow, time and time again, entertainment and media find a way to reinvent and elevate the mean-spirite

My learning this year has been greatly assisted by a number of students willing to be honest with me. One of them, Alec, is the kind of kid teachers love t

As a young man growing up on the East Side of Compton, California, I never quite understood my place in my community or society. I identified as an Asian A

Every state uses standardized tests to find out how students in public schools are doing. Federal law requires it. But why? And how do standardized tests a

Our inability as a nation to engage in difficult conversations about race has left us with a lack of agreement on how to define equity. Yes, equity is abou

As a first-year teacher of students with disabilities in a large urban district, I faced huge inequities that even other teachers and principals overlooked

Outrage: As Long As Betsy’s In Charge, Kids Should Just Stop Going to School Once again, Betsy DeVos demonstrated this week her dangerous ignorance of our

They’ve been all over the news since February, walking out of class, marching for their lives in the streets and dunking on the president of the NRA on Twi