student achievement
Is Trump Gutting Education Research a New Beginning or Just ‘Slashing and Burning’?
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Institute of Education Sciences on Monday temporarily disables an essential source of data on a host of basic information — everything from high school...
Mental Health
Mental Health, Healing and Wholeness for Black Boys
Advocating for better mental healthcare for Black men and boys is always on Emmanuel Jackson's mind. As a college counselor at Muchin College Prep in Chicago and as a Black man, he often sees his...
Achievement Gap
The NAEPs of Wrath
How did you recognize NAEP Day this year? Many reveled in platitudes and short stories, mostly fiction, told to confirm our biases for this or that educational intervention. I’m reasonably...
Black teachers
The Villain in the Classroom? A Black Teacher Who Dares to Teach Truth
Throughout American history, Black educators who dare to teach truth have found themselves thrust into the center of a societal storm, vilified as boogeymen intent on dismantling the very fabric of...
Black teachers
Honoring Black History Means Honoring Black Educators
In the same way that Black History is as broad as all of American History, the legacy of Black educators is similarly expansive: Black teachers shape education and the entire profession and elevate...
Math
America’s Math Decline + AI’s Rise = An Education Crisis No One’s Ready For
I recently read a Facebook post in an educator’s group where a teacher was upset that a student had challenged him on a math problem. The student, confident in their reasoning, took the issue to the...
