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It’s been a wild year for education, from unprecedented federal investments in our nation’s kids via the American Rescue Plan to endless conversations on c

As we enter the second winter of COVID, we know that cases will rise as people spend more time indoors and gather for the holidays. Even with extremely eff

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

It is no easy thing to help high school students become better critical thinkers. Especially now. The very act of engaging students in the events of the wo

There is no shortage of reading material on what parents can do to help their children learn to read. For some useful information, Natalie Wexler has autho

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

Over the last 15 months or so, while students in many communities have attended school virtually or in hybrid settings, technology has been a tremendous su

In the next few weeks, nearly all school districts in the U.S. will offer at least some in-person instruction. The worst of the pandemic school closures ar

I am a special education teacher with 17 years of experience in the classroom and a parent of two children with dyslexia. Recently, I learned that my daugh