Special Education
The Gifted and Talented Debates Aren't About Rigor They're About Access
An interesting, complicated, and rather polarizing trend is going around in American education, and it has to do with special admission schools and the designation of “gifted and talented.” Around...
COVID-19
Principals Must Be Hope Dealers In Schools and Communities
During a recent conversation, Murleen Coakley, principal of Greenfield Union in the Detroit Public Schools Community District, reminded me how much being a great principal is equal parts passion,...
Literacy
BIPOC Students Deserve To See More Than White Protagonists in Children's Books
The great American educator, Mary McLeod Bethune, once said, “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” As we mark National Family Literacy Month this November, these wise words are...
student support
How Enacting Equity Can Decrease Holiday Trauma
As a kid, I didn’t look forward to the holidays as much as my classmates did because it meant more time in a home that was filled with trauma and inequities. My anxiety increased before breaks and I...
CRT
Current Events Put Racism on Display, No Matter How Hard Some Try to Hide It
In the words of Mugatu, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Defense lawyers in the trial seeking justice for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, apparently seeking to distract from the modern-day lynching...
IEP
If You’ve Been Silent About Child Justice, We Need You Now More Than Ever
We have a problem. The global COVID-19 pandemic has not only created a storm of challenges in policy and practice for public education; it also has fomented political and racial divisions in parent...
