17-year-old Ifeoma White-Thorpe has been accepted to all 8 Ivy League schools and Stanford. “Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pri
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His Students Didn’t Think You Could Be Black and a Principal. He’s Proving Them Wrong.
Last year as he was preparing to open a new middle school in Rhode Island, Osvaldo Jose Martí worked as an administrator first at Blackstone Valley Prep’s
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Read MoreBefore You Oppose Vouchers, You Should Know that D.C.’s Opportunity Scholarships Are Changing My Kids’ Lives
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I am the fly in the school reform buttermilk. An outsider, now marginally on the inside, trying to plot the revolution. Young, gifted and Black, I founded
Read MoreHow Teaching a Liberal Education Will Help Our Students Move Past Prejudice and Embrace Our Common Humanity
In 1952, as the world continued to take stock of the devastation wrought by authoritarian regimes, a coalition of prominent universities and preparatory sc
Read MoreI Was Homeless and In and Out of School. Then I Got Into Ms. Russell’s Car.
I wasn’t supposed to be where I am today. People repeatedly told me, “You ain’t nothin’. You ain’t neva gon be nothin’.” I saw my first murder at age 11, a
Read MoreYou Can’t Just Trust Your Instincts, You Actually Have to Go Ask the Parents What They Think
“In God we trust. All other bring data.” —W. Edward Demming Right now, our school, Nashville Classical Charter School, is planning to open a middle schoo
Read MoreDesegregation Taught Me About Cultural Differences, But Have My Daughters Learned Those Lessons, Too?
I remember the summer of 1978 leading up to the first day of school when desegregation and busing were starting. The Wilmington neighborhood where I grew u
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