Stories

When parents at Broadway Elementary School’s Mandarin immersion program in Venice, California, wanted the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to re

Five years ago, I left a failing school. Having taught in struggling schools for my entire career, the choice was difficult because I left a school that ev

Sixty-two years ago this month, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, ethnici

California is currently revamping its school quality reports, moving away from abstract, numerical values of school quality to a set of more comprehensive

The elation I felt upon my acceptance to Ohio State University felt too distant to recall as I walked out of my chemistry final. As a first generation stud

Perceived bias is killing people. Dallas, Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, Orlando, Cleveland—and so many other places. Our public education system can play a

A few years ago, I had a conversation with a young African-American man who was a high school senior in Chicago. He wanted to be a teacher in order to reac

Martina, a high school sophomore, told her teacher she was nervous about talking with students from other schools about race. As she boarded the yellow sch

Education activist Chris Stewart told me in a recent interview that “it’s almost like we’re putting people through a meatpacking plant and we’re trying to