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Last week, the Chicago Sun-Times released an article announcing that Chicago native, rapper and actor, Common, was financially backing an arts-focused char

Being misgendered feels like getting stabbed in the back, even when people don’t do it on purpose. I’ve learned to live with that pain, it’s something I ex

A few summers back, I was at a wedding reception, exchanging the customary pleasantries one does when seated next to people one has only just met. We discu

It’s getting uncomfortable out there. Amidst a national period of divisiveness and polarization, “edu-politics,” the politics of public education, is in a

Have you ever been so hungry that it caused you physical pain? I’m not talking the kind of hunger that sneaks up when you’ve realized you haven’t eaten all

This is a guest post submitted by an author who prefers to remain anonymous due to the nature of the content. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey (Weinstein),

In most urban school districts, “turnaround” is a dirty word. Turnaround schools are first identified as failing and left to languish for some time in obsc

I often think about the 16-year-old Black girl who took my honors English class a few years ago. She was the only person of color in the class, and I allow

The big buzz word in New York City education is: Diversity. On October 26, 2017, yet another plan was announced, this time promising to bring diversity to