Teaching

During my time in school, I only had two Black teachers and they were both female, one in the fifth grade and the other in seventh grade. I never saw mysel

A few summers back, I was at a wedding reception, exchanging the customary pleasantries one does when seated next to people one has only just met. We discu

Have you ever been so hungry that it caused you physical pain? I’m not talking the kind of hunger that sneaks up when you’ve realized you haven’t eaten all

This is a guest post submitted by an author who prefers to remain anonymous due to the nature of the content. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey (Weinstein),

In most urban school districts, “turnaround” is a dirty word. Turnaround schools are first identified as failing and left to languish for some time in obsc

I often think about the 16-year-old Black girl who took my honors English class a few years ago. She was the only person of color in the class, and I allow

When I first heard the news that the Trump administration planned to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), my thoughts went immediately to my

This morning, academics and civic leaders gathered in Chicago to dig in on research that shows Chicago’s public schools have done a remarkable job of incre

Too often in education, policy wonks and researchers (like me) talk about an issue in ways that bear little resemblance to the way it plays out on the grou