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Another Pan-African Book Fair, Another Chance to Engage Black Public School...
By Sam P.K. Collins For retired teachers and couple Charles and Queen Laureen Butler, the eighth annual “Know Thyself Book Fair and Author’s Forum” represents an ongoing endeavor to foster...
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Harvard Under Fire for Slashing Slavery Initiative Staff as Black History...
By Stacy M. Brown Harvard University abruptly terminated staff contributing to the research component of its Slavery Remembrance Program on Jan. 23, leaving employees without notice and sparking...
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When School Choice Becomes ‘Picking Your Poison’
This is what choosing an excellent school for your child should look like: You go to your neighborhood school and sign them up. But excellence isn’t just about academics, and a quick scroll through...
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These Executive Orders Can Hit Black Students the Hardest
When President Donald Trump signed a barrage of controversial executive orders rolling back civil rights protections and racial equity policies, he didn’t explicitly address education. But he did set...
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Trump’s DEI Rollback and Its Ripple Effect on K-12 Education
In the first days of his second term, Donald Trump wasted no time keeping a campaign promise to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, via executive order, across federal agencies....
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At Rutgers, Racial Healing Is More Important Than Ever
Newark is a place where rich and unique culture exists within its five wards. Situated across the Hudson River from Manhattan, the city is diverse, with a wealth of young talent: musicians, artists,...
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Is Gentle Parenting Making Life Harder for Teachers?
By Dr. Stephanie Boyce When it comes to how students show up and behave in schools, there is an age-old saying amongst educators, “It all starts at home!” That is to say, how students behave when they...
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What Does Racial Healing Look Like at the University of Maryland?
Freshly into his second term, President Donald Trump immediately kept his campaign promise to defund and eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs within the government and the military....
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Can Campus Racial Healing Bridge Rhetoric and Reality?
As a senior journalism major at Northern Illinois University, I’ve seen firsthand the challenges Black students face on predominantly white campuses. From microaggressions in classrooms to feeling...
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Schools Can Still Teach Black History — Very Carefully
In January, on the eve of Black History Month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order cutting off federal funds for K-12 schools he says indoctrinate kids based on “discriminatory equity...
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The Fight for Free School Meals: What’s at Stake for Black Students
In Oakland, California, 55 years ago, a group of Black children gathered at St. Augustine Episcopal Church for a free breakfast before school. However, it was the Black Panther Party that provided the...
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New Policies Endanger Black Immigrant Students’ Security
Imagine sending your child to school, only to worry that they might not come home — not because of violence or illness, but because their classroom could become the next target of immigration...
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Chicago Teachers Union: We Won’t Stop Teaching Black History
For many people, the idea of dismantling the Department of Education may seem far-fetched and unrealistic. President Donald Trump, however, has made it a priority: he promised it during the campaign,...
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Sorry, Your Kid Probably Doesn’t Read Proficiently
As the decades-long debate over the best way to teach kids how to read — a phonics-based approach or a whole-word approach — rages on, one thing remains true: Most students still aren’t reading on...
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Ringing the Alarm for Civil Rights Data in Schools
In 1968, at the height of the civil rights movement, the U.S. Department of Education launched a groundbreaking initiative: the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). Designed to track disparities in...
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Erasing Black History? These Unions Say Not on Their Watch
Black Wall Street, the Red Summer of 1919, redlining, the truth about what happened after Reconstruction, how the March on Washington was organized — there’s plenty of Black history most of us weren’t...
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Can a Student-Led Battle Fix Kentucky’s Schools?
In 1990, after the state Supreme Court ruled the public schools were failing, lawmakers in Kentucky passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act, a law that was supposed to guarantee each child in the...
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What Shutting Down the Department of Education Means for Financial Aid...
by Laura Onyeneho I remember the moment I opened my first financial aid package before I started college. It was the biggest financial expense I would ever have to take on. The numbers on the page...
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Our Schoolkids Aren’t Cannon Fodder for Trump’s Culture Wars
After a series of sweeping executive orders aimed at federal hiring, contracts, and research grants, the Trump administration’s assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion has set its sights on a new...
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Black Students Are Punished More, Then Expected to Succeed
It’s become routine for acts of school violence against Black children to float across our news feeds: In 2019, a Minnesota teacher segregated the Black students in her second-grade classroom and...
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