Stories

How many of you have asked the question, “How are principals doing during this time?” Since March of 2020, when our education system was turned upside down

I was always a good student — I did very well academically. Every nine weeks, we had these standardized tests for the state. I would always place in “advan

Last Friday, October 1, Oakland education activist Dirk Tillotson was murdered in his home. He was as real as they come, self-described as the “patron sain

Maybe this is the turning point.  Education advocacy is exhausting — particularly in rural communities like mine, where our opportunities are limited and o

Every single thing we do is challenging. My kids are being forgotten. That’s Keri Akkawi, a Philadelphia mom of two boys with Fragile X Syndrome, a genetic

It was an engineer at Lockheed Skunkworks who coined the design principal of “Keep it simple, stupid.” His belief that complexity should be avoided, and th

Look at this picture of a white man on a horse appearing to whip a Black man.  And no, this isn’t from the year 1712. It’s from earlier this week — the Uni

Ethan Ashley is the president of the Orleans Parish School Board, which regained full control of New Orleans public schools on July 1, 2018. New Orleans is

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the profound inequities in education, especially for Black and brown students. The upheaval of the past y