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The New Niagara Initiative is Amplifying Black Voices to Improve Black Education

The New Niagara project is a modern-day initiative with deep historical roots, designed to define and improve the state of Black education in the United States. Based on the spirit of the original...

Diversity

How Do We Make Our Classrooms Feel Like Home to Each and Every Student?

For context, I’m a first-generation Ghanaian American who has spent all but three years of my life living outside of Ghana. While I mostly understand my family’s home language, Twi, I grew up not...

Diversity

The DNC’s Missteps Reminded Us About The Importance Of DEIJ Work In Schools

Last month, I tuned into the Democratic National Convention online. The one thing that was very clear to me was the Democratic Party’s attempt to be inclusive of and honor the intersections of many...

School Choice

Education Department Debate Is About Creating Anti-LGBTQ+ Worldview

Fact: MAGA Republicans want to abolish the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). It’s one of the few items on the to-do list of Trump’s Agenda 47 and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 (AKA “Agenda...

Diversity

DEI Is The New N-Word

The terms/acronyms “woke,” “DEI,” and “CRT” are used in a derogatory way, interchangeably, as a coded language to signify or designate a Black person as either Black or the N-word. Political...

Diversity

DEI is the MAGA Boogeyman, But What Is It Really?

To hear some MAGA folks talk about DEI sounds a lot like the scene in the first John Wick movie when Viggo explains to his son why they liken the unstoppable assassin to the mythical creature Baba...

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Stories

The New Niagara Initiative is Amplifying Black Voices to Improve Black Education

How Do We Make Our Classrooms Feel Like Home to Each and Every Student?

The DNC’s Missteps Reminded Us About The Importance Of DEIJ Work In Schools

Education Department Debate Is About Creating Anti-LGBTQ+ Worldview

DEI Is The New N-Word

DEI is the MAGA Boogeyman, But What Is It Really?

Support Education Equity