If I Hadn’t Been in Class the Day We Talked About ‘Rules,’ My Classmates Would Have Some Strange Ideas about Autism

In class a few days ago, we started reading the book “Rules.” The book is about…

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…