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Support for Testing and Accountability Is Waning. Is Politics to Blame?

Hartney: It reflects the unwillingness of the political class to make holding schools accountable for learning the cornerstone of American education.

Michael Hartney
Author: Michael Hartney
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Young People Have Something to Say. We Should Be Listening

Pineda: We can engage young people by lowering voting ages, redesigning civic education, and extending opportunities for civic involvement.

Jordan Pineda
Author: Jordan Pineda
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Let’s Rethink How We Teach Early Math – Starting with Teacher Prep

Nelson and Zhou: Ensuring future teachers know how to teach math to young children is one of the most powerful steps we can take.

Gena Nelson & Cece Zhou
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Congress Needs to Protect Resources for Homeless Students in Next Year’s Budget

Erb-Downward: A proposal to roll McKinney-Vento money into a block grant would effectively strip support from vulnerable children.

Jennifer Erb-Downward
Author: Jennifer Erb-Downward
California

Collins: The Humble Local School Board Is a Missing Link in Improving Public Schools. 3 Ways to Help All Board Members Live Up to Their Potential

Todd Collins
California

Commentary: Finding Teachers Where They Live & Casting a Wider Net — How a New Recruitment Program Is Successfully Diversifying the Profession in California

Donna Glassman-Sommer
Union Report

Exclusive: New Hampshire Delegates Will Not Attend National NEA Convention, Citing Anti-Immigrant and LGBTQ Policies in Texas

Mike Antonucci
Puerto Rico

Keleher: As Puerto Rico’s Education Secretary, I Fought for the Island’s Students. Now, My Successors Must Take Up the Battle

Julia Keleher
parent empowerment

Cortez: ‘In the Room Where It Happens’ — Parents Assuming Formal Authority to Drive Change

Alex Cortez
Brown v. Board

Gregory: 4 Ways Teachers in Segregated Classrooms Can Desegregate Their Students’ Learning

Nataki Gregory
Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

The Untold Stories Behind Brown v. Board: 65 Years Later, Remembering the Five Unique Lawsuits and Communities That Joined Forces to Persuade the Supreme Court

Cheryl Brown Henderson
Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

J.A. Stokes — The Student Strike That Launched One of the Most Influential Civil Rights Movements in Virginia. ‘We Jump-Started Our Own Manhattan Project’

J.A. Stokes
Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65 — Adrienne Jennings Bennett on the Anticipation & Anxiety That Followed the Verdict: How Soon Would D.C. Implement School Desegregation?

Adrienne Jennings Bennett
Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65: Alfred L. Cobbs Recalls the Day Prince Edward County Closed Its Schools to Fight Mandatory Integration — and the Families Who Took In Those Lost Students

Alfred L. Cobbs
National Charter Schools Week

Wilkins & Ziebarth: 2019 Champions for Charters and Hall of Famers Show Support for Charter Schools Across the Aisle & the Country

Amy Wilkins & Todd Ziebarth
Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65: Katherine Carper Sawyer, Daughter of Key Plaintiff, Reflects on Being Called to Testify in Court at 10 Years Old

Katherine Carper Sawyer
Brown v. Board

You’ve Heard of Thurgood Marshall & Earl Warren. Now It’s Time to Celebrate the ‘Regular’ People Who Made Brown v. Board Possible 65 Years Ago

Gerard Robinson
Brown v. Board

Phalen: Modest Reforms Are Not Enough to Give Millions of Kids a High-Quality Education. We Need Bold Action to Transform Our Schools

Earl Martin Phalen
Brown v. Board

Ramsey: As a New Teacher, I Felt the Struggles Over Integration Firsthand — 38 Years After Desegregation Became the Law of the Land

Alicia Ramsey
Brown v. Board

Tucker Haynes — Resisting School Integration Long After Brown v. Board: My Grade-School Memories From the Jim Crow South

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
Brown v. Board

Chris Stewart: It’s Been 65 Years. Maybe It’s Time to Stop Expecting the Promise of Brown v. Board to Be Fulfilled

Chris Stewart
Brown v. Board

El-Mekki: Black Folks, Stop Chasing White Integration. It’s Not the Surest Path to Black Student Achievement

Sharif El-Mekki
Brown v. Board

Jeffries: White Supremacy Made Brown v. Board Necessary — and It’s Still the Force Denying Too Many Black & Brown Students an Equal Education Today

Shavar Jeffries
Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Brown v. Board at 65: Understanding the History of America’s ‘Foundational Test of Racial and Educational Equity’ — Through the Personal Stories of Families Who Took Their Case to Court

John Edgar Tidwell & Harry A. Butowsky
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