Diversity
4 Things You Missed Watching Black Panther
The entire nation is buzzing over the newest Marvel installment, “Black Panther”—especially Black folks. Aside from fantasizing about what it would be like to live in Wakanda and be a superhero,...
student achievement
The US Is Falling Way Behind in STEM But Kentucky's Powering the Comeback
Maybe you’re already aware, but the United States isn’t exactly globally competitive in science education. As of 2015, we ranked 24th out of 71 countries included in a major international study. If...
New York
VIDEO: Meet the Bronx Educator Who Uses Hip-Hop to Teach Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-YgBTWUpCk Video Series: Black Male Educators Speak In partnership with Education Post, the Campaign for Black Male Achievement (CBMA) has launched the Black Male...
Achievement Gap
Here's How Today's Schools Can Evolve to Prepare Kids for the Jobs of Tomorrow
The key three factors most likely to change the nature of future work are: artificial intelligence/robots, demographic changes and concentration of talent in certain locations, according to a new...
Charter Schools
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...
