Guest Blogger
Student, Amherst College
Oak Park, Illinois
Anjanique Barber is a sophomore at Amherst College, where she is studying pre-law and French, rows for the women’s crew team and works as a student tour guide. She is a graduate of Oak Park River Forest High School.
Schools are systematically designed to fail minority students. The system tells Black students, in overt and subtle ways, they will never be as smart or educated as their White classmates.…
I remember the sense of envy that hit me four years ago when my AP Government teacher asked: “So, who…
All the things that we spent so much time stressing about since ninth grade don’t seem so important right now.…
Many of our Belief Gap pieces have dealt with the gap between adult and student expectations. This piece comes from…
Monday night I sat on my back patio staring up into a rare, starry Chicago night. I squinted and made out each point of The…
For 14 years I have taught math at the same high school. The entirety of my career—three thousand students, eighty classes, 13 preps, five rooms,…
Cheltenham School District just released a letter to the community confirming that after months of internal and external discussions, surveys of stakeholders, and feedback from the board,…
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