After spending a joyous weekend this past fall, at my 30th high school reunion, I reflected on the fact that I was a pretty disengaged high school student, and I don’t mean just a little disengaged either. I loved so many of my...
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It’s March, and all over the country, students and their families are waiting anxiously to receive emails and letters about the status of school applications; parents furtively asking one another if they’ve received word from...
For years, I have experienced the world of education through the role of a teacher. I’ve engaged in discussions about fair funding formulas and school segregation. I’ve advocated for access to effective charter schools...
This is a guest post from Mr. David Hardy. It originally appeared on the Philly.Com and was reproduced here with his permission. Mr. Hardy is one of my heroes. He is the co-founder and retired CEO of Boys Latin Charter School...
This is a guest post by Austin Gibson. Austin is a junior at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). I graduated from a west Philadelphia high school that’s a turnaround neighborhood charter school that used to be the...
I have many friends who are staunchly “anti-choice” when it comes to educating Black children. They are awesome people, folks you would trust with your children or money, but I find their hypocrisy alarming. They can be...
Like hundreds of thousands of Black families, my paternal grandmother and several of her relatives participated in the Great Migration, one of the most dramatic population shifts in American history. Although some Blacks left the...
It is August. It is one of those hot and steamy Philly summers. We are in the midst of staff orientation, the air conditioning isn’t really working, yet we are bursting with excitement about what is next. New students. ...
The end of a school year appropriately provokes a lot of reflection. Did we reach our goals? Did we remain consistent? What regrets do we have? How did we start out and were we nimble enough to respond well to real time...
“With great power, comes great responsibility.” The conditions of our schools clearly communicate to us that we need authentic vanguards for our communities. Although many (vote hungry politicians, district employees...