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Students of Color Experience an Endless Parade of White Women
In our eagerness to do what’s right for kids and to try to embrace justice work, we’ve missed something essential. Our house is still messy, untidy, and oppressive. I leaned hard into my identity as...
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Embrace “Uncomfortability” in Support of Marginalized Students
It can be overwhelming to keep track of the seemingly daily acts of injustice that affect our education system, and it’s just as hard to know how to address these issues. Banned book lists populate...
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Superintendents Must Stand Up to Fear to Support Educational Equity
Research shows that when schools integrate and embrace each individual’s rings of culture, interpret the laws and data for accountability and continued improvement, and ensure all youth feel a sense...
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A Profile of Racial Equity at Boston Public Schools
In Boston’s current education system, students of color, particularly our Black and Brown students, are disproportionately impacted by gaps in opportunity and outcomes. Race cannot continue to...
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Educators’ Fight Against Gender Inequality in Leadership
Public school education is perceived as a female-dominated industry. But even though more than 75% of public school teachers are female, less than one-third (28%) of superintendents are women. In the...
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Use Competency- Based Learning to Promote Student Equity
The telltale signs of a student who was up late at night working a part-time job are impossible to miss: shuffling down the hallway as they head to their first class, sporting bed-head hair and bags...
