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A Comprehensive Response to COVID-19 Must Include Culturally Responsive Educators

That educators are culturally competent matters more than ever. COVID-19 has upended the school year for students nationwide and educators are working diligently to assure...

Online Learning Opportunities Should Be Equal For All Students

Montgomery County, like the rest of the country, is in crisis mode. In this unprecedented era, millions of students are at home when they...

After COVID-19, Can We Summon The Courage To Imagine A New And Better World?

It’s essential to begin today’s piece by acknowledging the privilege it is to think and write. Last week this time, typing up a day-ending Medium...

During The Pandemic, Learn And Teach Chess!

We find ourselves in times of crises: loss of many lives in sudden waves of sickness, fear, doubt; we face critical choices in so many...

How “Woke” White Folks Block Black Women’s Progress

It’s Women’s History Month and this is your friendly reminder that black women are undermined, underappreciated, and outright mistreated in this country.  Black women are...

Zoom: A New Platform For Bored Racists

I’ve seen a lot in my 48 years. I’ve seen the n-word scrawled in bathroom stalls and spray painted on walls. I’ve seen swastikas...

Please Accept My Resignation From The ‘Ed Reform’ Movement

To all my disrupter friends, please accept this letter as my resignation from the so-called “education reform movement.”For more than 20 years I’ve been...

Yaw Really Homeschooling Or Nah?

Before we get into today’s piece, let’s get a few things clear from the top: My wife and I have five… yes, one, two, three,...

Demand Educational Justice And Tell The FCC To Help Ensure Internet Access For Low-Income Students

The pandemic of 2020 is rocking our world and throwing our country’s school system into shutdown mode. While educators are trying to mitigate the...

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