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…
On January 6, when an angry mob stormed the Capitol, I was in the middle of teaching my 7th grade English language arts students about…
In the next few weeks, nearly all school districts in the U.S. will offer at least some in-person instruction. The worst of the pandemic school…
Lindsay Singer and Ashley McCall are both third grade teachers at Cesar Chavez Multicultural Academic Center in Chicago. Lindsay teaches mathematics and inquiry. And Ashley…
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