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It’s Not Fair Week
This week, for the first time in 170 years, it’s not Fair Week in Carroll County,…
Legislators to Azar: ‘Stand up to secure health or resign’
U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) as well as Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to…
Leveled Texts Are ‘Exhibit A’ for the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
The scene occurs daily in classrooms across the United States. Students, grouped by reading ability, come…
Teachers, We Need to Get Our Knees Off Our Students’ Necks
Debate is raging across the country on how to return to school in the fall. The…
The New Accountability Assignment
The spring of 2020 will forever be known as the season when tens of millions of…
What If Your Entire School System Was the Racist Monument That Should Come Down?
The angry protestors are coming for public statues of historic Americans as diverse as Confederate traitors like Robert…
How the Coronavirus Crisis May Improve Teacher Quality
The soaring unemployment rate because of the Covid-19 pandemic may improve teacher quality. That’s the conclusion…
Make Covid-Era K-12 Local Education More Like Daycare
Parents are conflicted about what to do with their K-12 children next fall. They have doubts…
The Education Exchange: Condoleezza Rice on the “Deep Visceral Wounds of Slavery”
The Education Exchange · Ep. 151 – July 20, 2020 – Condoleezza Rice on the “Deep…