Secondline Blog

To Be Black and Have a Chance at a Quality Education in America Is a Fight
To be Black and have a chance at a quality education in America is a fight, rather than a privilege, no matter who is sitting…

Sometimes School Closures Really Are the Best Thing for Kids
As a parent, if you believed your child to be enrolled in a failing school, would you withdraw them? And if you did, how likely…

Ed Reformers, Here’s the One Important Voice You’re Ignoring
Maybe we should just be honest and admit that we are kidding ourselves. We say that the election of Trump is surprising, but we have…

Black Teachers Are Tired of Feeling Tolerated. We Want to Feel Empowered, Supported and Celebrated.
Where are all the Black teachers? This is a question I’ve asked myself and others for the last few years now. But it wasn’t until recently…

They Told Me I Wouldn’t Succeed and I Listened. Thankfully, Someone Disagreed.
For most of my life, I never thought I would leave New Orleans or go to college. But my teachers saw things in me that…