Guest Blogger
Education Blogger
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Lynnell Mickelsen is a long-time progressive Democrat and recovering journalist who spent nearly two decades as a Minneapolis public school parent. She is now active on education reform issues and writes on her blog Put Kids First.
It’s been two weeks since the mass shootings in Roseburg, Oregon. And I’ve spent the last seven days comparing the…
For me, as a Democrat, one of the weirdest things about working on education reform has been the never-ending fundamentalist…
A while back MinnPost reprinted my post: Forget About Fixing Black Kids. What If We Fixed White Liberals Instead? The…
Well, this isn’t subtle. From Alternet’s “7 Big Public Education Stories of 2014”: Opt-out activists are targeting more than just…
This summer, integrated schools heated up as a campaign issue when Kamala Harris called out Joe Biden for his 1970s stance on mandated busing as…
This teacher said a thing and I thought all hell would break loose. It happened last week when my 8 Black Hands crew recorded a…
In 2013, Sandra Korn, then a senior at Harvard and a contributor to the student newspaper The Crimson, wrote an article telling her peers “Don’t…
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