Achievement Gap
Here's What I Learned After My Son Faced Implicit Racial Bias in Kindergarten
What is implicit racial bias? Implicit bias is the unconscious associations and assumptions made between groups of people which affect the routine classroom and administrative decisions that produce...
Diversity
Here's One Thing We Can Do to Retain Teachers of Color
As a third-year teacher in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I’ve already thought about leaving the profession. Since middle school, I always wanted to be a teacher. I entered the profession imagining...
Special Education
It’s Never Been Harder to Be a Teacher and That’s Why We Need to Train Them Better
Teacher training in the U.S. has been a crapshoot. Because when you're hiring first year teachers, sometimes you say “crap” and other times you say “shoot.” Kidding...kidding. There are a myriad of...
Teaching
Teachers, Here's How You Can Make These Last Days Before Break Count
The gap between Thanksgiving and winter break can be one of the most challenging stretches in time any teacher experiences. It’s like trekking the Sahara Desert with chapped lips, while only wearing...
U.S. Department of Education
Schools Waste Too Much Time Trying to Find Good Teachers, and Colleges Can Fix That
“After 30 years of doing such work, I have concluded that classroom teaching…is perhaps the most complex, most challenging, and most demanding, subtle, nuanced, and frightening activity that our...
Teaching
Coffee Break: Kate Walsh on How the ‘Tide is Turning’ on Teacher Quality
Since 2003, Kate Walsh has been working hard to improve the teaching force in our schools—an undisputed key to better academic performance. She’s served as the president of the National Council on...
