Post-Affirmative Action: Navigating the Path to Equity and Economic Mobility
Post-Affirmative Action: Navigating the Path to Equity and Economic Mobility June, the month of finishing finals, walking across the stage for graduation, and the beginning of summer, quickly turned into a month of despair as the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ended the...
Debunking Debt: The Drive for Student Loan Forgiveness
Debunking Debt: The Drive for Student Loan Forgiveness Last month, in derailing President Biden’s plan to relieve $400 billion in student debt, the Supreme Court delivered a setback to our country’s ideals of education for all. College affordability and the student...
40 Years of Standards-Based Reform: What Comes Next?
40 Years of Standards-Based Reform: What Comes Next? Today marks the 40th anniversary of the National Commission on Excellence in Education’s publication of A Nation at Risk, which sent education reform into overdrive. Specifically, standards-based reform (SBR) became...
A Traumatized Generation: Our Collective Responsibility to Prevent School Shootings
A Traumatized Generation: Our Collective Responsibility to Prevent School Shootings It’s hard to believe that my youngest turned 12 years old last month. Her birthday was a supersized Tuesday filled with pizza, bowling, arcade games, and a store-bought cake. Typically...