Stories

Teachers, You Never Know What Students Are Going Through Outside The Classroom

This guest post is by an anonymous, Oakland-based educator. One time my mom tried to kill me. She chased me with a knife, cackling like a witch. It was hide-and-seek—but it wasn’t, it wasn’t a game....

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...

bias

Our Political Leaders Might Be Sleep But My Students Are Woke

Leaders within our new administration seem to be embracing a revisionist narrative of our country’s tortured history with race that is at best uninformed, and at worst, malicious. Take, for instance,...

Student Voice

#MyBlackHistory: When You're the Only Black Kid in a Sea of White Classes

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...

Student Voice

#MyBlackHistory: Why I'm Celebrating Every Black Genius From City Blocks to the White House

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...

Student Voice

#MyBlackHistory: The Teachers Who Worked to Get Me to College and the Strangers Who Helped Me Finish

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...

AI In The Classroom: What A Year Has Taught Us

Teachers, You Never Know What Students Are Going Through Outside The Classroom

I Was Homeless and In and Out of School. Then I Got Into Ms. Russell’s Car.

Our Political Leaders Might Be Sleep But My Students Are Woke

#MyBlackHistory: When You're the Only Black Kid in a Sea of White Classes

#MyBlackHistory: Why I'm Celebrating Every Black Genius From City Blocks to the White House

#MyBlackHistory: The Teachers Who Worked to Get Me to College and the Strangers Who Helped Me Finish