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Coffee Break: Charter Leader Vanessa Rodriguez on the Real Difference-Maker We Should Be Talking About
Vanessa Rodriguez has deep experience working with the students of New York City. She started her career as a bilingual teacher at a Bronx elementary…
You Shouldn’t Have to Hire a Realtor When You’re Looking for a Good School
I thought I was ready. How hard could school enrollment be? Well, what if I told you the real parenting doesn’t start until your child…
I Bet Kids Can Debate Education Reform Better Than We Do
I just completed my first season as a middle school debate team coach. Here are the basics: kids argue either the affirmative or the negative…
Betsy DeVos Says Discrimination Isn’t Her Problem. And She’s Dead Wrong.
Give Education Secretary Betsy DeVos points for ideological consistency. In a budget hearing yesterday, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) pressed DeVos on whether her plan for…
Young, Gifted And Black? Prepare To Fight For Your Education
When I moved from California to Texas at age 4, I was reading full books and writing at a first-grade level. After being iced out…
Happy Mother’s Day to the Mamas Who Spend Years Fighting for Good Schools
I began my journey as a mother in November of 2013, seeing only the brightest future for my son. We slept the night that he…
Private Schools at Public Expense? No Way! Vouchers? Why Not!
In a cheeky segment on the Jimmy Kimmel show, an interviewer asked random people on Hollywood Boulevard whether they prefer “Obamacare” or its official name,…
I Was Born in a Refugee Camp in Kenya and Now I’ll Be the First in My Family to Attend College
In 1992, my family escaped the civil war in Somalia and we were randomly selected to live in a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. I was born in that camp in 1998.…
I Do More Before 9 a.m. Than Most People All Day. I’m a KIPP College Counselor.
If you’re the first person to go to college in your family, then it can be an overwhelming, exciting, scary, awesome time. You still need the support of the people who’ve been there with you from the beginning.…
Is Politics the Problem in Education or the Solution?
Politics is at the heart of so much that is wrong with public education. On the left, education politics is often about increasing funding while…
