Guest Blogger
Director, Education Civil Rights Alliance
Washington, D.C.
Miriam A. Rollin, J.D. directs the national Education Civil Rights Alliance and serves as an attorney for the National Center for Youth Law.
This week, the school reopening conversation is largely about when we reopen schools. Some people, including our president, want schools…
“Structural racism in school systems. Implicit bias among school professionals. White privilege (and, when confronted, White fragility) among school staff.…
Last month, the U.S. Secret Service released Protecting America’s Schools, which sends education leaders a clear message: we can prevent…
Although my daughter has now completed college, Labor Day still evokes back-to-school memories: buying school supplies, first-day nerves and excitement,…
This summer, integrated schools heated up as a campaign issue when Kamala Harris called out Joe Biden for his 1970s…
It is no easy thing to help high school students become better critical thinkers. Especially now. The very act of engaging students in the events…
In 2017 Dr. Avis Williams came to Selma City Schools as its new superintendent, taking over an urban district where almost all students are economically…
As the school year begins, we hear lots of deficit-laden words like “Title I,” “tough,” “low-income,” and “low-achieving” to describe primarily Black and brown students…
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