Guest Blogger
Teacher
Dallas, Texas
Katie Benningfield is a middle school math and science teacher at The School for the Talented and Gifted in Dallas, Texas, the 2020 Dallas ISD Secondary Teacher of the Year, and a Teach Plus Senior Policy Fellow.
Every year, I look forward to the first week of May, Teacher Appreciation Week. The week is usually filled with…
Alright, Black people—let’s push past Ice Cube’s meeting with Trump and 50 Cent’s declaration supporting his reelection. Yes we love hot tea and messiness from…
In Texas, California, Michigan, New York and 24 other states, school boards are on the ballot this November. That means folks in those places may…
One afternoon in March 2010, Khaliah Fitchette, a 16-year-old student at Newark’s University High School, was riding home on a NJ Transit bus with her…
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