In class a few days ago, we started reading the book “Rules.” The book is about…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s James Madison High School
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has triggered a…
EdNext Podcast: “A Situation of Dramatic Excess Demand for Testing”
A professor of economics and education at the University of Virginia, Sarah Turner, joins Education Next…
I Hope I Never Lose Another Student to Suicide
“I’m going to end it!” Unsure of what I heard, I questioned back, “End what?” Her…
Here’s How the Presidential Candidates Stack Up on Community Schools
When the families of Chicago’s Spry Elementary and I launched Spry Community Links High School, the…
The Rise of Dual Credit
Aniken Castaneda amassed 30 college credits before graduating from his high school. Aniken Castaneda took his…
Advocating for My Students Requires Being Political On My Own Time
With election season upon us, like clockwork, the collective efforts to stifle the political opinions of…
The Education Exchange: A $14 Trillion Loss from Coronavirus-Related School Closures
The Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, Eric Hanushek,…
Black Excellence Does Exist and It Lives in Our Kids
I’m guilty of saying Black boys and girls are failing in school—a good chunk of us…
Surrounded by COVID, Civil Unrest and Chaos, Our Students Need Hope
Anyone who has ever been in a strategic planning meeting has been told that “hope is…