Politics

Once upon a time, well-heeled suburban schools used to have to worry about whether all their students made the grade—not just some of them, not just the Wh

Up until a few years ago, I had struggled to find my voice as a teacher. I had internalized a set of classroom management principles best summed up by the

Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, leading to an uprising in Chicago. The North Lawndale and East Garfield Par

In my classroom there is a poster that says, “Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and never give up.” This poster is more than some frivolous decoratio

Outrage: These Politicians Bullshitting Third-Graders We all know politicians are full of it. But kids keep it real. So when third-graders ask why you’re p

Karen Hawley Miles is the president and executive director of Education Resource Strategies, Inc. (ERS), a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that helps turn ar

The wave of teacher protests in the nation’s heartland are turning much-needed attention to the desperately under-resourced public school systems of many s

The day that I ended my career as a teacher, I woke up as a parent. I had taught for 15 years and I’d reached a career high, but still, I quit. The money w

Mary Scott-Boria, 67, has had a long and distinguished career in Chicago’s civic world: first executive director of the Chicago Sexual Assault Services Net