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Diversity

Why the Black Male Educator Conference Matters More Than Ever: A Decade of Community, Culture, & Liberation

I’ve been attending the Black Male Educator Conference (BMEC) since the very beginning—back in 2015, when 100 Black men teaching in Philadelphia gathered in a room for a radical revival to lift each...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs. She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door. She calls it “the final...

whole child

How Sesame Street Made Learning Irresistible

I have a vague memory of sitting on a little wooden potty chair in my grandparents’ living room. Green shag carpet beneath my feet. Positioned in front of a massive television, back when TVs looked...

activism

‘Why Fascists Fear Teachers’ Should Be Required Reading for Every Education Activist

“Wars are won by teachers.” — Vladimir Putin (quoted by Randi Weingarten) That single line could serve as the thesis for Randi Weingarten’s new book, "Why Fascists Fear Teachers." It’s less a memoir...

Teaching

The War On Truth Begins In the Classroom

We live in an age when truth no longer anchors public life. The cost is not merely confusion but captivity, the quiet surrender of our capacity to know. Language is the first casualty. What once...

equity

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools

The future that the Trump administration envisions for public schools is more patriotic, more Christian, and less “woke.” Want to know how that might play out? Look to Oklahoma. Oklahoma has spent...