Stories

Diversity

I Used to Think Entrepreneurship Was Just for White Guys

The hustle never stops. This time, I was racing for an afternoon coffee with fellow entrepreneurs. I threw my University of Virginia Darden School of Business padfolio into my bag, tossed in a...

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equity

Here's How You Know When You Need to Check Your Microaggressions at the Front Door

If I had money to wager, I’d bet that if you’re a female teacher, this has happened to you. You’re in a meeting and you say something smart. A few minutes later, a man repeats your smart comment and...

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California

Do We Just Want Our Kids to Get a Job, or Do We Want Them to Change the World?

To those of us who observe, study and serve America’s public education system, it would seem that, similar to public housing, we have only been marginally successful. In many urban areas, failure is...

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student achievement

When Advocating for Students With Disabilities, It’s OK to Be Wrong Sometimes But It’s Not OK to Be Quiet

I remember the first time I spoke up at a national conference in front of my colleagues. We were at a national meeting of a few hundred urban special education administrators from around the nation...

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Parents

What Happens When Even the 'Best' Neighborhood School Treats Its Students With Disabilities Horribly?

The New York Post recently profiled Wesley Clark, a 9-year-old fourth-grader at PS 8 in Brooklyn Heights. The article describes a “supposedly progressive Brooklyn Heights public school that talks a...

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Parents

If You Give White Teachers Guns, I'm Pulling My Black Son out of School

On December 14, 2012, a shooter walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 children and six adults. My firstborn son was 9 months old. At the time, kindergarten...

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