Belief Gap

Teaching Is Leading

A love letter to the young people we're inviting into the classroom To the young person reading this — whether an auntie sent it to...

You Don’t Need a Nobel Prize To Know Ed Is an Investment

A University of Chicago economist won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for showing what Black educators, Black grandmothers, and Black freedom fighters...

Black Students Are Doubted Even When They Succeed

Recently, a study found that students enrolled in Ethnic Studies courses experienced measurable academic gains, including higher GPAs and increased engagement. Similar findings have...

Great Teachers Allow Black Parents To Breathe

With summer underway and students settled into break, it is worth recognizing the deep sigh of relief for Black families at this time of...

Education Must Do More Than Prepare Black Children To Survive

My mother introduced me to conversations about racism, injustice, power, and the contradictions of American society when I was still young. A lot of...

“Rigorous” Education Includes Anti-Racist Teaching

The claim that anti-racist education has undermined academic achievement rests on a misunderstanding that continues to shape how we talk about schools. It assumes...

A Viral “Can You Read?” Moment Shows It Takes a Village To Get Our Youth Literate

A senior at Preparatory Charter High School in South Philadelphia walked through his school with an index card and asked classmates to read a...

Black History Debunks American Propaganda and Mythology

In chapter 17 of his seminal work Black Reconstruction in America, titled “The Propaganda of History,” W.E.B. DuBois details the lessons American school children...

The American Education System is Determined to Stifle Black Children

Here’s how (systemic) racism works.  African people were taken from their homes and brought to what would become the United States to be enslaved, where...

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