Stories

Poverty

No Heat, No Food, No Books? We Still Have to Teach

Recently, my grandmother reminded me that we have too many luxuries in schools. Though we consider these necessities today for elders like my grandmother, heat, air conditioning and transportation...

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Charter Schools

School Segregation Is No Accident and This Writer Says It's Because of Our Racist Housing Policies

America’s public schools today are more segregated than at any time in the last half century and government housing policies are largely to blame, says author and policy analyst Richard Rothstein....

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student achievement

For This D.C. Teacher, There’s Still Hope But Again It’s Deferred

“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.”—Proverbs 13:12 These days when you hear about D.C. Public Schools (DCPS), you probably don’t think of students winning...

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Poverty

Coffee Break: Colorado's Parents Are a Force to Be Reckoned With and This Organization Is Making Sure We Know It

If the founders of Transform Education Now (TEN) have their way, the parents of Colorado’s school kids will be the newest force to be reckoned with in 2018 and beyond. Rooted in the belief that...

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Mental Health

We Need School Discipline Reform But We Also Need to Protect Teachers

One of my second-graders, Tony, generally entered the classroom happy. But it took a very small thing to make him furious. Tony, who had been diagnosed with anger impulsive disorder, would get angry...

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Charter Schools

Black Children Being Harvested for Profit and Charitable Rappers are Fueling My Hope and Outrage This Week

Outrage: Black Children Are Being Farmed Like Cotton “Black children are the new cotton, people are trying to harvest them for their per pupil funding."—Words spoken by Chris Stewart at SXSW EDU....

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