Stories

I’m starting a new thing here called “Hope and Outrage.” A lot of us wake up every morning with the goal of rallying people to fight for better educational

Take a moment and think back to when you were 12 years old. See life through the eyes of your 12-year-old self. What were you most excited about? What did

As a teenager on the streets of Chicago’s South Side, Darrell Cannon learned not to trust the police—a lesson that continues to resonate for young Black me

There is a growing body of evidence that Black students perform better when they have a Black teacher. It is a problem, then, that only 6 percent of teache

On March 14, students across the country will walk out of school to demand action on gun violence. They are telling elected officials, “Enough!” They are s

This Wednesday, students are walking out of America’s schools in protest of gun violence. It’s projected that 2,500 schools will participate. As I scan Fac

This is not an article about how to stop gun violence in schools. Like most of America, my perspective has been forever changed by the horrific events at M

Seventeen years ago, I was a first-year teacher working alone in my classroom when a police officer came to my door. He told me to “get low” and to come wi

My study of school shootings began in 1998 when I evaluated a 14-year-old boy who carried out a shooting in Paducah, Kentucky. He had been bullied for year