Three (Ignorant) Arguments Used to Ban Critical Race Theory

Three (Ignorant) Arguments Used to Ban Critical Race Theory

To understand the legislative attacks on Critical Race Theory (CRT) that aim to make teaching CRT in schools—including concepts like white supremacy, syste

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Award-Winning Educators Call on States to Halt Bans on Critical Race Theory

Award-Winning Educators Call on States to Halt Bans on Critical Race Theory

As award-winning elementary and secondary school educators, we seek to ensure that our students receive an excellent education, to advance our students’ sk

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We Will Not Shy Away From Teaching Our History

We Will Not Shy Away From Teaching Our History

During their senior year, all scholars at all of Democracy Prep’s schools take a rigorous year-long course called Sociology of Change. For the first half o

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We Don't Have to Wait for Permission to Create Restorative Model Schools

We Don’t Have to Wait for Permission to Create Restorative Model Schools

If our goal is to uproot the systemic racism and other prejudices that live within the structure of our educational system and in every school building, th

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All This Performative Pettiness in Activism Diminishes Our Collective Power

All This Performative Pettiness in Activism Diminishes Our Collective Power

*In my Principal Joe Clark voice* I need all of the Black education activists to join me in a church basement conversation, expeditiously! I’m not liking w

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We Never Learned About Black Wall Street. So, What Else Is Missing From Our Curriculum?

We Never Learned About Black Wall Street. So, What Else Is Missing From Our Curriculum?

Did you ever learn about Black Wall Street and the Tulsa, Oklahoma Massacre? I know I did not. It was not until I was an adult. Did you learn about the Ros

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Here’s Why Teachers Pay Teachers Is Fueling Culture Wars in the Classroom

When textbooks make headlines you realize it’s probably good. In fact, it’s probably because something racist happened.

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Education Needs a Bigger Tent, Not a Bigot Tent

Education Needs a Bigger Tent, Not a Bigot Tent

In the past several years, right-leaning education reformers have been contemptuous of—and frustrated by—progressives who brought a justice orientation int

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A Year Later, One Thing Is Clear: Being 'Woke' Isn't Nearly Enough

A Year Later, One Thing Is Clear: Being ‘Woke’ Isn’t Nearly Enough

It has been a year since the murder of George Floyd and the “American Spring” that followed it. Corporate America, sports leagues, marketing firms, and non

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