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…
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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