equity
Independence Day Is Still Unfinished Business for Black Students
Every year, the Fourth of July arrives wrapped in red, white, and blue Americana—a spectacle of fireworks, parades, and proclamations of freedom. But for Black Americans, this national celebration is...
equity
Independence Has Always Been a Day Late and a Dollar Short for Black People, But Schools Can Change That
Ed Note: This post was originally published in 2023. What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? ~ Frederick Douglass On June 19, 1865, two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation...
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...
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,...
Teaching
Start Building the Schools Our Children Deserve
Black and brown children need great schools. They needed them throughout history, and they need them today. Access to great schools, across time and geography, has been punishingly rare. So it’s...
