The growing demand to reopen schools echoes across the country, supported by billions of dollars in federal funds to help schools “build back better.” Stat
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No, You Should Not Be Teaching Black Children if You Reject Anti-Racism
There would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.Dr. Carter G. Woodson The news has been full of parents, school boards and elected officia
Read MoreAccountability for One Killer Cop Won’t Protect Our Kids From the Systemic Harm They Face Daily
Here’s where I am after all of the shit that went down this week … Black people aren’t safe and will never have peace under this current system of “law e
Read MoreWe Learned a Lot About What Our Students Actually Need This Year. Now We Must Do Better.
We have all been steeped in the vivid, traumatic consequences of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, particularly with regard to a year of disrupted learning for
Read More5 Ways to Make Black Lives Matter at School
The societal turmoil, protests, and unrest—all a cry for justice. The focus is on Black lives; however, this goes beyond Black lives being protected from p
Read MoreFor 2021, We Need Real Strategies to Dismantle Racism in Schools
As educators, we’re taught to begin with the end in mind. To be successful, we need to know our intended outcome so we can backward plan how we will get th
Read MoreEducation for Black Kids Cannot Look the Same as It Did in 2020
We lost so many lives this year—lives that could’ve been saved if people just gave a damn for once. And I’m not referring to the close to 300 thousand Amer
Read MoreHigher Education Is the New Poverty Pimp
I’ve been wanting to get this off my chest for a while and here it is—higher education is the new poverty pimp in Black communities with student loans bein
Read MoreSuburban Families Haven’t Always Been Allies of School Choice, But That’s Changing
Middle class, suburban families, once likely opponents of education choice, are now rallying behind the right to choose where to send their children to sch
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