equity
Juneteenth Serves As a Reminder That Anti-Blackness Is Still Alive in Our Schools
Ed Note: This post was originally published in 2021. As a Black man, I want to start by saying that it’s refreshing to see that Juneteenth is now (and still) a federal holiday! For my people,...
Politics
ICE Raids in Schools Yet Another Trauma for Kids Who’ve Already Had Too Many
The world is a messy place. Most of us figure this out by the time we hit adulthood: However compelling our convictions, however good our intentions, humans are constantly tripping into one another....
student support
Schools Should Not Be Battlegrounds for Immigration Enforcement
Graduation week in Los Angeles should be a time of joy and celebration for students and their families. Instead, fear and uncertainty have taken hold in many of our communities. Since June 6, federal...
Diversity
This World Should Break Your Heart
Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people....
opportunity gap
Gary, Ind., Isn't a Doom-Scroll Factory. It’s a Case Study in Educational Justice
In American education, we don’t have a shortage of success; we have a shortage of will to scale it. Across the country, pockets of excellence prove what's possible when we believe in our students,...
Diversity
1972 Gary Declaration Was A Call For Equality That Remains Unanswered
More than five decades ago, some 10,000 Black leaders gathered for the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana. What came to be known as the Gary Convention of 1972 was an inflection...
