Equity-Driven • Data-Centered • Student-Focused We're excited to announce season 2 of ExtraOrdinary Districts is coming in November 2019! Take a listen to this quick preview and then subscribe on Apple Podca… At a young age, I became conscious of issues of equity. My family emigrated in 1981 from El Salvador — a country that was torn apart by a civil war caused by i… What happened: The Trump administration proposed several changes to the U.S. Department of Education's biennial Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). Public com… More Latinos are going to college than ever before, but as Joscelyn Guzman, a first-generation Mexican-American learned firsthand, getting there is the first o… In the past four years, my life has transformed for the better. I am a newlywed with a full-time job and working toward a bachelor’s degree in nonprofit manage… “Emotionally, it is harder to see students who look like me struggle, while higher-up administrators didn’t seem to truly care.”So says a Black teacher, summin… My son has started the fifth grade, and I couldn’t be prouder. Last spring, I wrote about my son’s challenges not being met in the third grade and how I had to… September 15 marks the start of National Hispanic Heritage month, when we honor the many cultural and economic contributions of Latinos, who comprise nearly on… As a White woman progressing through college and my internship at Ed Trust, I have come to understand the extent to which systemic racism permeates every aspec… My kid’s elementary school was located in an affluent part of town. But in a nondescript building about a mile away, there was a homeless shelter. So, unbeknow… Lifting the ban on Pell Grants for incarcerated students is one of Ed Trust’s policy priorities for higher education reauthorization, and we are proud to advoc… I often tell people that my English pronouns are they/them and that I identify as trans (specifically nonbinary). This is much more accessible than explaining … I was born and raised in the central part of the Navajo Nation in a town called Chinle, which is near the Canyon De Chelly national monument in Arizona. For mo…Fierce advocates for the high academic achievement of all students — particularly those of color or living in poverty.
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ExtraOrdinary Districts Season 2 is Coming!
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To be a Positive Light for Latino Students
Why We Need to Protect the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) from Secretary DeVos’ Proposed Cuts
Getting To & Through College: Joscelyn Guzman
Second Chances are Real — Let’s Make Sure More Students Get Them
Why Teachers of Color Leave
When a School Meets a Child’s Individual Needs
Broken Mirrors II: How Many Latino Students Are at Public Colleges and Universities? Not As Many As There Should Be.
Reconciling Your School’s Racist History
Free and Reduced-Price Lunches Are Essential to a Child’s Education
What Happens When Incarceration Meets Education
What It Means to Be Nonbinary and How to Be an LGBTQ Ally
Student Voices: Hearing and Supporting Native/Indigenous Students
by Sarahi Monterrey
by Malika Kidd
by Coleman Evans
by Luis Mattei Jr.
by Charlie Scott
by Charlie Scott
