School began in Milwaukee this week. At my daughter’s elementary school, there was a balloon arch and a front walkway packed with students. Eager, anxious, bouncy. The unstoppable force of...
The Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding from 40 states for a sex education program aimed at vulnerable teens unless those states remove references in their curriculum to...
Education today is contested ground, just as it has always been. To teach honestly about race, history, and power is to confront realities that challenge the world as it is. Across the country, we...
Black and brown children need great schools. They needed them throughout history, and they need them today. Access to great schools, across time and geography, has been punishingly rare. So it’s...
"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair. No place for self-pity. No need for silence. No room for fear." – Toni Morrison This year marks the 35th anniversary...
