Achievement Gap
Here's a Summer School Kids Actually Want to Attend
Below is a video and transcript of TED Fellow Karim Abouelnaga on his plan to reverse summer learning loss. See how he's helping kids improve their chances for a brighter future....
Poverty
If We Really Want to 'Make America Great Again' We Have to Restore the American Dream
Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan asked recently, “ What’s Become of the American Dream,” which she defines as the belief that in America, “You can start from...
California
Teach For America Could Be Exactly What America's Schools Need to Reduce Implicit Bias
As a young man, President Lyndon Johnson taught desperately poor children in South Texas and would often reference this eye-opening experience during his time in the White House. Johnson also...
Poverty
I Was Homeless and In and Out of School. Then I Got Into Ms. Russell’s Car.
I wasn’t supposed to be where I am today. People repeatedly told me, “You ain’t nothin’. You ain’t neva gon be nothin’.” I saw my first murder at age 11, and, by the time I turned 15, I was on my...
Poverty
Forget Your Nostalgia for White Picket Fences, Suburban Schools Need to Accept the New Reality
There’s a myth that persists in education for both parents and teachers: That heading to suburban schools somehow insulates you from hardship, instability and academic failure. So, not only are...
Poverty
This Rural Town Shows the Real Costs of Our Broken School Funding System
These days, the small town of Sandoval, Illinois, is mostly known for being a few miles away from Patoka, where the famed Keystone XL pipeline ends after making its way south from Canada. Located...
