Stories

Amid COVID school disruptions, research has shown that for most students across the U.S., recent learning gains have been lower-than-typical in math.

As an educator, I know how important it is to look at growth through the lens of test scores and data-driven academic goals. But I also know, in the wake of yet another school tragedy, that my students need me to focus on their growth in a different way.

“Do you know what you’ll be if you do this?” my husband raged at our then-16-year-old son, “You’ll be just another Black man without a high-school diploma. Why are you acting like a rich, white kid? You are not a rich, white kid!”

Crystal Jewell’s 11-year-old has salsa on the mind. “My daughter has been taking a photo each week of our salsa garden growing to log its progress,” she said of the new hobby her daughter picked up at Remake Learning Days Across America’s “Salsa Time!” event in northwestern Pennsylvania in April.

What is the purpose of education? What does indoctrination mean in education? Dr. Greg Carr and Shayna Terrell discuss.

Last Friday evening, in Birmingham, Alabama, parents, guardians and friends sat under sparkling rows of string lights, waiting in joyous anticipation for the Magic City Acceptance Academy’s inaugural graduation ceremony.

We uplift Mama Camara Jordan as we continue our focus on ‘Mothers in the Movement,’ highlighting matriarchs in the education and activism space.

Nineteen second, third, and fourth graders and at least two teachers are dead (as of this writing) after a gunman entered yet another school with another automatic weapon designed to do only one thing: kill.

Early this year, the Illinois Right to Read Act looked like a no-brainer. As originally written, the bill pushed teacher colleges, districts and schools to pay greater attention to phonics and phonemic awareness when teaching children to read.