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When I read Steven Wilson’s blog post The Promise of Student Agency: How This Charter School Is Moving Beyond ‘No Excuses’, I immediately connected with hi

Since the NAACP’s proposed moratorium on public charter schools in July, a number of Black leaders and organizations have come out against its stance. The

In a press release issued Wednesday, September 21, the UNCF joins more than 160 education and community leaders in asking the NAACP to reconsider a propose

As a high school English teacher, I was faced with a fundamental problem: Many of my kids weren’t actually reading the class material. Reading the assigned

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/embed/7CVyQY7MUMc?rel=0[/embed] A big congratulations is in order for the city of Somerville, Massachusetts who recently lea

The dominant theme of Richard Whitmire’s book The Founders is that the top quintile of public charter school operators are remarkably open to collaboration

People loosely use the term “good schools and diversity” without looking into it or researching what that means. When you get below the surface, it means a

I have a confession to make, and I suspect I’m not alone among educators and education policy types in harboring this sentiment. I detest conferences. Ther

Whenever people ask me what I miss most about my classroom days, I often struggle between two specific memories: my days as a National Council of La Raza (