Stories

Coffee Break: Kennan Scott on Cold Brew, Mad Scientists and Teaching STEM to Kids of Color

Kennan Scott teaches engineering at West Oakland Middle School in Oakland, California. Before becoming a teacher, he worked as a transit engineer, where he saw firsthand the isolation and obstacles...

STEM

Only 6 Women Were in This College Class and One of Them Was My Mom

In September of 1955, Gertrude Mary Long, better known as Gigi, started her freshman year of college at Lowell Technical Institute in Lowell, Massachusetts. (That’s UMass Lowell to you.) Not only was...

School Choice

Want to Know Why I Came Back to Teach at This Denver Charter School? Equity.

Can you name a decision that changed your life forever? Mine was in 2005, as a freshman in high school in Denver, Colorado. I spent two weeks convincing my parents that traveling on two buses and a...

School Choice

I Will Stop at Nothing to Become an African-American Female Computer Scientist

This post is part of a series of posts celebrating students who are making it to and through college with the support of the KIPP charter school network’s Through College program. The United States...

opportunity gap

#MyBlackHistory Call to Action: Give All Kids Access to Opportunities and Believe in Their Big Dreams

To commemorate Black History Month, Education Post is featuring stories from parents, students and educators that connect past to present in the continued fight for better schools for Black...

STEM

#MyBlackHistory: Here’s Why I Became an Engineer and How I’m Helping Kids Do It Too

To commemorate Black History Month, Education Post is featuring stories from parents, students and educators that connect past to present in the continued fight for better schools for Black...

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