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 January marks the fourth anniversary of #MeTooK12, a campaign spotlighting the widespread sexual harassment and assault millions of students experience each day. Although statistics…
The other day, my wife and I watched the first episode of the new sitcom Abbott Elementary. In this episode, there’s a hilarious scene where…
School boards (in some states “school committees”) sit at the intersection of civic engagement, local politics, and community service. The school board is a team…
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