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Black Male Teachers Were My Father Figures, And We Need More of Them

With the spring semester upon us, districts nationwide still struggle with teacher shortages. In New Jersey, it’s a crisis that is making it harder to hire and retain Black and Latino teachers....

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AAPI Heritage Month: Cross-Racial Coalitions Provide Blueprint for Support

Almost 30 years ago at the University of California, San Diego, the late Chicana feminist and activist Elizabeth Martinez coined the term Oppression Olympics during a discussion with Angela Davis...

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Children Paying the Price for Culture Wars and Witch Hunts in Public Education

Personal attacks on educators and others working in public education by political extremists have become all too common in recent years — and our children are paying the price. Our children are being...

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Black Students, Expelled Tennessee Justins face Same Struggle

In his classic book The Miseducation of the Negro, Dr. Carter G. Woodson stated: “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to...

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Parents Storm D.C., Tell the GOP Whose Rights They Forgot in Their “Parents Bill of Rights”

This week, 75 parent activists from the National Parents Union, representing dozens of states, descended on Capitol Hill. They came to tell lawmakers the truth about H.R. 5, dubbed the “Parents Bill...

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Teaching Black History Must Start at Home

When I came across a tweet about the Miami Police Department’s unveiling of a designed patrol car in honor of Black History Month, my immediate thought was that this is no different than the Black...

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