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It’s that time of year again. The start of a new school year presents teachers with the opportunity to create new goals, build relationships and reconsider

When I was growing up, Puerto Rico was always my favorite place on Earth. Born in Boston to Puerto Rican parents, I spent my summers on the beaches of Rinc

[tabby title=”English”] I met my husband in Puerto Rico in 1980. We married young and we moved to Boston to live with his family. After a number of years t

I have always been extremely anxious about change. Sometimes that change would lead to various levels of panic, sometimes in public. And that panic would i

A basic right like education can sometimes feel more like a privilege than a constitutional promise. In the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case, the

I am proud to be the first in my family to have gone to college. However, that is not all I am. I am the first in my immediate family (mom and dad) to grad

Last year, several of my talented, dedicated colleagues of color announced they were leaving our school, and the news hit some students hard. “Black teache

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

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