Grandparent, Gary Comer College Prep
Chicago, Illinois
Lavern Thomas is a grandparent in the Chicago area who came together with more than 40 other African-American parents, students and teachers to talk about the Black experience in America’s public schools. These conversations were released as a video series in Getting Real About Education: A Conversation With Black Parents, Teachers and Students.
At the turn of the century, in 1999, I was graduating from high school, motivated to enter the teaching profession with a passion to reform…
As I sat with my 7-year-old daughter and her friends in a movie theater for a showing of “Frozen II,” I was fascinated. No, it wasn’t…
There’s a major force in the education world that has attempted to claim ownership over the term “equity.” From tweets questioning the value of literacy…
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