Is There a Point in Trying to Engage in a Dialogue With Your Oppressor?
Last week, Betsy DeVos, who promotes separate but equal education, delivered the commencement speech at an HBCU, and was met by protests. Why was she even invited?
Education
Why Are Black Parents Being Punished for Trying to Educate Their Kids?
When white parents take their kids out of failing schools, they’re deemed responsible. When Black parents, like Kiarre Harris, do it, they’re called criminals and suffer brutal consequences.
Now Teachers Can Paddle Students AND Have Them Arrested for Fighting
Missouri's new anti-school-fighting law is yet another way to perpetuate the school-to-prison pipeline and ensure a future of coercion and disenfranchisement for children of color.
My High School Faked a Massacre
After Columbine, the writer participated in what was then a rare simulated shooter drill. Today, they're an all-too-common practice even preschoolers are subjected to.
Why Are More Parents Homeschooling Their Kids?
Once thought to be favored only by religious families like the Duggars, taking education in-house is now finding a whole new class of practitioners.
Teachers Are Schooling Government on How to Improve Education
Strikes in Chicago and Seattle are just the latest protests against lack of funds and overtesting. Can this growing grassroots movement change the public school system?
Where Should My Black Son Go to School?
This writer knows how hard it is to be the only Black kid in class. But there are sacrifices she must consider that mothers of White children don't—sacrifices that could be detrimental to her son.
Can University of Wisconsin Survive Governor Walker?
The GOP governor is destroying the university system, with a $300 million budget cut and a move to weaken tenure. This UW professor reveals just how far-reaching the damage will be.
Dear White People, Your Kids Are Getting Screwed, Too!
The Atlanta cheating scandal and the White middle-class revolt against standardized testing have more in common than you think: They’re a repudiation of our failed education policies.