Stories about the people and communities working to make educational equity a reality

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Ideas and Solutions

Maryland Teacher of the Year on the 'Unstoppable Power' of Her Pre-K Students

Berol Dewdney (Baltimore ’13) shares her approach to early childhood education.

Podcast

Nuestra Comunidad (Our Community)

Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with Amanda Fernandez, CEO and founder of Latinos for Education (L4E), and Jay Alvarez, a high school educator and participant in L4E’s Latinx Teachers’ Fellowship, about increasing opportunities and breaking down barriers for Latinx educators and students.

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Top Issues

A Key to Native Students’ Success: Making the Teaching Profession a Home for Native Educators

Teachers and leaders across the Teach For America network are supporting Native students’ success by innovating approaches to recruiting and retaining Native educators.

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Top Issues

Creating Schools Where Black Male Teachers Can Thrive

Black men make up only 2 percent of the U.S. public school teaching force and have a high turnover rate. How can districts attract and retain more Black male educators?

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In This Vision of Education, Students Are Empowered to Love Learning and Themselves

Ebony Payne Brown is working to open a charter school in Atlanta with rigorous academics, where students feel loved and their identities are celebrated.

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Designing the Future of School: Ideas and Examples from the Education Reinvention Network

Rather than focus on teacher shortages or test scores, an educational leader suggests redirecting energies toward imagining schools of the future to meet the evolving needs of 21st century students.

Title card reads "The Bridge to Reinvented Education" with images of educators featured in the video.

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Podcast

Season 2, Episode 4: Healed Teachers Heal Students

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Top Issues

California is Investing in Bilingual Educators in Asian Languages. What Does This Mean for AAPI Educators and Students?

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Podcast

Season 2, Episode 3: A Black Man’s Classroom

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Ideas and Solutions

To Fix Our Education System, We Need to Develop Leaders at Every Level Committed to Equity and Excellence

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Ideas and Solutions

The Latest NAEP Data Is Devastating: What Do We Do Now?

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Ideas and Solutions

Making Up for Lost Time: Many Schools Turn to Tutoring to Help Reverse Pandemic Learning Disruptions

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Recent Opinion Essays

Veterans, Your Next Act of Service Could Be in the K-12 classroom

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Ryan Pavel

Chief Executive Officer, Warrior-Scholar Project

Allies Need to Be Bold in Their Support of LGBTQ Teachers and Students

Dwayne J. Bensing

Legal Director, ACLU

You Will Encounter the Model Minority Myth, but It Is Your Legacy to Resist It

Tony DelaRosa

Author