anti-racism

Hard decisions are not new to me, but in the past seven years, decisions about where to send my daughter for elementary and middle school have been among m

Hope: #ByeRoseanne in the Classroom Roseanne is the second person in TV history to get fired on her day off (people who have seen the movie “Friday” know w

Two former U.S. secretaries of education, Margaret Spellings, who served under President George W. Bush, and Arne Duncan, who served under President Barack

America could really use some role models and yet somehow, time and time again, entertainment and media find a way to reinvent and elevate the mean-spirite

As a young man growing up on the East Side of Compton, California, I never quite understood my place in my community or society. I identified as an Asian A

My learning this year has been greatly assisted by a number of students willing to be honest with me. One of them, Alec, is the kind of kid teachers love t

Every state uses standardized tests to find out how students in public schools are doing. Federal law requires it. But why? And how do standardized tests a

Our inability as a nation to engage in difficult conversations about race has left us with a lack of agreement on how to define equity. Yes, equity is abou

As a first-year teacher of students with disabilities in a large urban district, I faced huge inequities that even other teachers and principals overlooked