School Choice
Dear Hillary, Read This Before You Take That Advice on Public Education
Dear Hillary Clinton: Now that it looks like you really might be our next president, a lot of people who work in public education are giving you advice. [pullquote position="right"]Please take it all...
School Funding
Teachers Unions Must Stop Standing With Republicans Against Closing the Equity 'Loophole' in Title I Funding
The Obama administration is trying to end a longstanding bit of systemic inequity in the public schools, but his officials are facing the stiff arm from an unlikely team: Republicans and their new...
Politics
Sexism stings for a long time, in politics and in the classroom
When Hillary Clinton became the first female nominee for President of the United States, I’ll admit I cried. I looked at my daughter and my tears came. Nothing in my childhood prepared me for that...
Parents
How to Have 'The Talk' With Your Black Students When They Return to School
Eric Holder stated that in his version of "the talk," which he hoped to not have to “[hand] down,” that “as a father who loves his son and who is more knowing in the ways of the world, I had to do...
IEP
When ‘Special’ Feels Like an Insult: Diary of an IEP Kid
I've struggled with learning disabilities my whole life. Not the disability, but being labeled as someone with a disability. I had never felt stupid before, but for some reason getting “special”...
Teaching
This Teacher Learned to Walk in Two Worlds While Teaching on a Reservation
As a brand new teacher, I thought I had the tools I needed to teach any students, any place I found a job. But it only took a month for me in my first licensed teaching position at Two Eagle River...
