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in high crime areas, education reform needs to...

“In the 21st century,our children have one of three options: take something, rupture something or...

the route school buses can take toward racial...

Kids recede to school to get an education,and in share to increase their future job opportunities,...

new study finds that multiracial high schoolers...

The National Interest: Once a month,this column is tackling broader questions approximately what...

black women have reasons to cry — they claim...

Growing up in black America in the 1970s,the portraits of MLK, JFK and Jesus hung on every...

even a child can see the hypocrisy in trump s...

Clean up clean up everybody everywhere. Clean up clean up everybody do your share. – Barney,Clean...

diversifying the tech industry, one party at a...

What comes to mind when you think of the SXSW Conference? whether you don’t know the acronym...

the civil war may be settled, but the fight to...

Fights over history are really contests for children’s minds. And the stakes are tall...

asking too much of high school graduates but not...

The adage,“To whom much is given, much is expected, and ” can’t just apply to tall school...

how teachers should talk to students about trump s...

President Trump’s language may not seem presidential,but people of color know too well his...

we need an education commission to take a critical...

recent research shows that private schools are contributing to America’s educational woes. Now...

marjory stoneman douglas students give legislators...

I’ve been asking the mistaken question all along,and I only realized it after the mass shooting at...

america has never had a merit based system for...

New Orleans native Elizabeth Thomas will attend Georgetown University this descend as a legacy...

we won t have any black mark zuckerbergs or bill...

The median wealth of black families “is on a path to hit zero by 2053,” if current trends hold....

a case for educational reparations for the...

We don’t like to think of social justice as a zero-sum game. But there are costs associated with...

new research says schools don t matter much in...

Editor’s note: Once a month,the National Interest column will tackle broader questions about what...

somebody lied: education alone can t dismantle...

Editor’s note: Once a month,the National Interest column will tackle broader questions...

i finally agree, college isn t for everyone

I’ve been proven mistaken. The evidence has overwhelmed me. I pick it back. “Stop saying...

any educational reform that ignores segregation is...

“In education,America does everything but equity.” With these words, Failing Brown v. Board, and...

the empress s new clothes

“behold at her ratings! behold at her ratings!” Donald Trump hailed the “Roseanne”...

don t ever conflate disaster recovery with...

Storms will inevitably near; the tragedy is that avoidable artifical disasters will follow. After...

attacking daca during a national tragedy is...

Hurricane Harvey victims who needed to be rescued from their flooded homes didn’t care if the...

education unfits us for slavery; we need to...

While the world was focused on the horrific Trump administration policy of family separation,they...

dress codes can t cover for bad teaching

“In middle school,I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a Washington, and...

the empress new clothes

“Look at her ratings! Look at her ratings! Donald Trump hailed the “Roseanne” television...

what lengths will you take to get your child in a ...

Antwan Wilson,the chancellor for D.C. Public Schools, agreed to leave his post last month after news...

baltimore students need more than space heaters;...

Broken boiler heaters forced many students in Baltimore to memorize in freezing conditions and once...

it s time our educational institutions instilled...

Times of crisis give institutions an opportunity to assess what matters most. It’s hard not to...

if you can read this, thank a teacher. if you don...

“Is this Supreme Court decision the finish of teachers unions?” asked an NPR article responding...

who benefits from research on racial disparities?

The evidence that racism is directed at black people to impede their social and economic progress...

when black history isn t relegated to a single...

Last year Vice President Mike Pence commemorated the start of Black History Month by acknowledging...

tolerating failing schools in new orleans — so...

What whether I told you that 41 percent of the bridges that you drive across are faulty? Or,41...

letting our boys onto the football field is a...

As a former athlete in tall school and college, I thought sports would play more of a role in my...

when cause of death is not suicide, but school

Gabriel Taye should still be with us. The 8-year-primitive African American boy was caught on...

christian conservatives are trying to turn bigoted...

As a descendant of enslaved Africans who were told that Christianity justified their captivity,my...

charter school leaders are complicit with...

Charter schools didn’t create segregation but the charter school movement isn’t helping to...

when a dollar and a dream isn t enough

“I couldn’t go back and forth without dying,” said Nathan Morrison, a senior at Southern...

removing racist monuments is about making history,...

“I still remember my first trip to UVA,to the hospital, was in the 50s, or ” the renowned...

higher education must stand up for puerto rico

Editor’s note: Lisette Nieves,Clinical Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at...

faced with the domestic terrorism at...

President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos didn’t whole-heartedly renounce white...

when the firing of a principal raises bigger...

In New Orleans, we took four accomplice monuments down final month. But living tributes to white...

discovering black teachers at hbcus

“I’m going from space to space to space having the same conversations about how to recruit...

a conservative supreme court could threaten the...

When we think of what’s at stake in education with the impending conservative swing of the Supreme...

if black lives matter, so do historically black...

The abolitionist,statesman and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass said that denying a person an...

good news: there is an answer to the shortage of...

You reap what you sow when it comes to developing teachers. And overrepresentation of white teachers...

when students are better role models than school...

Students need to be able to express themselves; the freedom to execute so is not only a question of...

segregation incarnated in brick and mortar

“I say,segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever, or ” Alabama Governor...

it was only a matter of time before the metoo...

The hashtag #TimesUp is emblematic of the movement to end sexual harassment against women that has...

black colleges can revive american cities

Looking to slip to a new city to live in or to set up a commerce? Consider a town where there’s a...

betsy devos should know robbing peter to pay paul...

President Trump’s full education budget cuts funding for college work-study programs in...

the national memorial for peace and justice is a...

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened late April in Montgomery,Alabama, to honor the...

betsy devos, our educational system helps produce...

The unusual York Times’ explosive revelations of Harvey Weinstein’s three-decades-long career of...

black athletes can teach us about more than just...

Bullying is not a newly discovered problem. But there is no denying it has been exacerbated by the...

learning is social and emotional; our classrooms...

My stepson’s inability to read because of a disability didn’t lessen my expectation that his...

schools should be the center of a new labor and...

Increasingly across the country, workers in different occupations recognize that their fates are...

youtoo? what educators need to learn from the roy...

What does it say about Alabama schools that nearly half of their former students voted for a...

betsy devos, our educational system help produce...

The current York Times’ explosive revelations of Harvey Weinstein’s three-decades-long career of...

building educational success on the backs of...

How did original Orleans prove urban-education reform can “work”? By firing and replacing the...

open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist...

I see you. You are not alone. You,who sent me that desperate email after seeing your colleagues...

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