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

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Ideas and Solutions

Leaders With Teaching Experience Can Help Fix Our Education System

Teach for America CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard says we need diverse leadership with firsthand experience in the challenges facing our education system to create bold change for all students.

Ideas and Solutions

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

The Nation’s Report Card shows troubling trends in student proficiency in the wake of the pandemic. Teach For America CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard shares three big lessons to serve as a springboard for reimagining education in this moment.

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Ideas and Solutions

This North Carolina School Ranked First in Academic Growth. Here’s How.

Henderson Collegiate provides a paradigm of what is possible in public education for disadvantaged children in rural areas.

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Opinion

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

What if more of military veterans stepped into the 300,000 unfilled jobs in schools across the country?

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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

One Day Video

The Impact of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Teaching AAPI Narratives

A father, educator, and Teach For America Alumnus, Tony DelaRosa, explains how the Asian American model minority myth serves as a tool for anti-Blackness and perpetuates stereotypes. Tony makes recommendations for an intersectional perspective, coalition-building, and culturally responsive teaching.

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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.

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Recent Stories

Ideas and Solutions

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

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Top Issues

School Counselors Just Want to Do Their Job

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Policy and Advocacy

Universal Free School Meals Are Over. What Does That Mean for Hungry Students?

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Top Issues

Targeted Support Is a Must to Rekindle Latinx College Completion Rates

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Policy and Advocacy

Improving Voting Access for Marginalized Communities One School at a Time

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Opinion

7 Non-Negotiables for Supporting Trans & Nonbinary Students in Your Classroom

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