School Choice

Well, we did it. Like millions of White, relatively affluent Americans before us, my wife and I moved with our two boys out of the city and into the suburb

Four members of Chiefs for Change recently participated in a panel discussion at the National Charter Schools Conference hosted by the National Alliance fo

Let me tell you a tale of two schools. As the Georgia Teacher of the Year, I visit countless schools all across Georgia—observing instruction and meeting s

[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

As we come to the end of another school year, I’ve been thinking a great deal about the teachers and parents who have dared to demand something different i

Outrage: Who’s Protecting Our Kids Why does a fifth-grader have to go to her school board to beg for protection from bullies? “Hi my name is Delanie. I’m h

Schools are where we’re supposed to find equal opportunity. Instead we find a sorting system that magnifies inequality. In fact, schools ration out opportu

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