During a recent conversation, Murleen Coakley, principal of Greenfield Union in the Detroit Public Schools Community District, reminded me how much being a great principal is equal parts passion, intellect, and creativity. But...
Author - Robert Simmons
What have we become in education when we deny children access to free meals? I come to this conversation about denying young people food as someone who once led a network of charter schools and cancelled the food service...
I am from a place where being home before the streetlights came on meant just that. I am from a neighborhood in Detroit where drugs and guns were more common than schoolbooks. I am from a place where milkcrate basketball hoops...