The bustling Southern city of Charlotte, North Carolina, is once again grappling with segregated schools, a problem we had all but conquered nearly 40 years ago. Unfortunately, for too many poor...
Teach For America’s biggest contribution to the broader fight for educational equity and excellence is bringing thousands of remarkable young leaders into this work. Rallying the next generation of...
Kudos to the Seattle Times’ Claudio Rowe and NBC’s Sylvia Cunningham for their coverage of a recent Johns Hopkins study on differences in teachers’ expectations of students depending on whether they...
All eyes are on Chicago Public Schools (CPS) as the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) plans for a one-day strike on Friday. Parents are scrambling to find places to put their children for the day while...
Minnesota’s state teachers union recently produced a report that calls for action on an issue that hits home for me as a teacher of color: increasing teacher diversity in our state. For the past 18...
