IEP
If You’ve Been Silent About Child Justice, We Need You Now More Than Ever
We have a problem. The global COVID-19 pandemic has not only created a storm of challenges in policy and practice for public education; it also has fomented political and racial divisions in parent...
student achievement
Education Organizations Remain Grossly Underrepresentative of a Growing Latinx Population
My community—the Latinx community—is the fastest-growing population in the U.S, accounting for 52% of growth in the last decade. Latinx students currently represent nearly one in three K-12 students....
opportunity gap
Schools Now Have Tons of Money. What Are They Doing With It?
I live in Lawrence, New Jersey—a middle-class, diverse town, halfway between Princeton and Trenton. For years I was on the school board and was very active in local governance, but over the years...
School Funding
Almost Two Years Into the Pandemic and We Still Haven't Gotten to the Heart of Our Broken School System
The kids are vaxxed and in school, so why do I still feel so hopeless? 600-some days ago, the world shut down and my kids came home for what I was sure would be just a few weeks before going back to...
student achievement
Here's How My Middle School Kept Kids From Failing During Pandemic Isolation
As the horrors of World War II were drawing to a close, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously advised: “never let a good crisis go to waste.” Last school year, Hammarskjold Middle School,...
CRT
Now Is the Time to Professionalize School Boards
Should schools reopen? Should students wear masks? Should vaccines be mandated? Should online learning continue to be a robust option? Does our district teach critical race theory? School boards have...
