Educational Opportunity
Education Needs a Bigger Tent, Not a Bigot Tent
In the past several years, right-leaning education reformers have been contemptuous of—and frustrated by—progressives who brought a justice orientation into the movement. Back in 2015, Rick Hess at...
CRT
A Year Later, One Thing Is Clear: Being 'Woke' Isn't Nearly Enough
It has been a year since the murder of George Floyd and the “American Spring” that followed it. Corporate America, sports leagues, marketing firms, and nonprofits of all kinds have made public...
CRT
The Real History of Teachers Being Complicit in the Miseducation of Black and White Children
As we celebrate and honor what would have been Malcolm X’s 96th birthday this week, I can’t help but think of his legacy in the context of today’s whitelash against speaking and teaching truth to the...
bias
You Could Not Raise Colorblind Children Even If You Wanted To
There is a meme going around, well not a meme, a genre of a meme. They typically feature kids from visibly different ethnic backgrounds getting along swell. Usually, the kids are in some type of...
Achievement Gap
The Rush to Reopen Schools Comes at a Price for Marginalized Students
The growing demand to reopen schools echoes across the country, supported by billions of dollars in federal funds to help schools “build back better.” States like California are backing the effort...
activism
Change in Schools Starts With Listening to Students
I am a high school senior from Montgomery County, Maryland, and a fierce advocate for social justice and progressive change. I have spent the past year working with peers from my school district,...
