Stories

Charter Schools

My Sister's Battle With Severe Mental Illness Taught Me Never to Stand for Pretense

My parents, Jerry and Emily, had three daughters. I’m the oldest, followed by Carla two years later, and then my youngest sister. Carla, I’m told, was difficult from birth, more moody and unhappy...

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School Choice

Let's Cancel Roseanne and Then Cancel These Haters Who Want to Block Our Way to Better Schools

Hope: #ByeRoseanne in the Classroom Roseanne is the second person in TV history to get fired on her day off (people who have seen the movie “ Friday” know what I’m talking about). But her time...

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anti-racism

Roseanne Isn’t the Only One Who Needs to Be Cancelled

America could really use some role models and yet somehow, time and time again, entertainment and media find a way to reinvent and elevate the mean-spirited and the unhinged. Roseanne Barr is no...

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Achievement Gap

Nice to See the Right and the Left Agree on Something, Too Bad They're Both Wrong

Two former U.S. secretaries of education, Margaret Spellings, who served under President George W. Bush, and Arne Duncan, who served under President Barack Obama, think the movement to improve public...

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Politics

Congratulations, Graduates! We Don’t Care About You at All.

Hello, class of 2018! Welcome to the last day of your K-12 education and the launch of your adult lives. I know that today is customarily a celebration of all you’ve accomplished. But these are not...

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California

I’m a Cambodian Kid From Compton and Because of My Mom, I Graduated From College

As a young man growing up on the East Side of Compton, California, I never quite understood my place in my community or society. I identified as an Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI), but rarely...

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