This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent years, new roles have begun to crop up in schools: advocates who support the social side of students’ lives. These emerging roles vary. But by and large they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Joe Biden’s push for more employers to require vaccines is likely to accelerate an already-growing trend in schools. In the past month, the number of states requiring teacher vaccinations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the start of the school year upon us, the anxiety and health concerns for students, their families, and teachers are all too real. Discussions about mask mandates, testing, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s may have been one period in time, but battles that resulted from that era are still going on. Monuments of major figures…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part two in a three-part series. Read part one and part three. The COVID-19 pandemic presented innumerable challenges to school districts across the country. Colorado district leaders, educators, and students managed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For an eighth-grade math teacher like me, the arrival of spring means I’ve almost finished teaching the concepts my students need to succeed in high school. It also means it’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s a few months before she’ll graduate from Newark Memorial High School and Allison Dinsmore doesn’t have a plan for what will happen after that. Unlike students in the far…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite tech and cybersecurity companies proclaiming to advance new initiatives to advance diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in recent years, not nearly enough progress has been made in the cybersecurity industry, which…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We need more Black teachers. A lot more. While Black students account for 15 percent of all public schools students in the U.S., Black teachers make up just 7 percent of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amid a heated political feud over the way educators should teach students about the legacy of issues like white supremacy and slavery, a major new study points to a positive,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2012, Marissa Evans wanted to make history when she applied to be editor-in-chief at Marquette University’s student newspaper, the Marquette Tribune. If she got the job, she would become the second…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Bisbee, Arizona, the Copper Queen Library, founded in 1882, is 114 years old — and it shows. The library, on the National Register of Historic Places, a hub for…