Lane, OK: Exposing and Learning from Success
A small, kindergarten-through-8th-grade district in rural Oklahoma, Lane was identified by Sean Reardon, Professor of Poverty and Inequality at…
The Importance of High-Quality Early Childhood Education (ECE) for Black and Latino Children
Two recent studies, one about the state-funded Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K program and another from the University of Chicago, have…
Live! With ExtraOrdinary Districts – A Discussion on District Improvement
To kick off Season 2 of ExtraOrdinary Districts, we brought together an all-star panel to discuss school district improvement.…
ExtraOrdinary Districts Season 2 is Coming!
We're excited to announce season 2 of ExtraOrdinary Districts is coming in November 2019! Take a listen to this…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To be a Positive Light for Latino Students
At a young age, I became conscious of issues of equity. My family emigrated in 1981 from El Salvador…
Why We Need to Protect the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) from Secretary DeVos’ Proposed Cuts
What happened: The Trump administration proposed several changes to the U.S. Department of Education's biennial Civil Rights Data Collection…
Why Teachers of Color Leave
“Emotionally, it is harder to see students who look like me struggle, while higher-up administrators didn’t seem to truly…
When a School Meets a Child’s Individual Needs
My son has started the fifth grade, and I couldn’t be prouder. Last spring, I wrote about my son’s…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Open Up a World of Possibilities
In order to get students outside of their comfort zones, they must have role models and teachers who are…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Show That the American Dream is Indeed Possible
We are each a sum of our life experiences. Opportunities chosen and those passed up. Chances taken, or not. Risks…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: Because My Students’ Future is Full of Promise
I teach Family and Consumer Sciences and Leadership at Mount Vernon High School. Mount Vernon, Washington is located in…
Why I Teach: To Make Black Boy Success Not the Exception But the Expectation
Growing up in East New York, when I was still surrounded by the innocence of youth, I had no…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Fulfill a Sense of Community
For the past 12 years, I have taught students with severe cognitive delays at Maryvale High School in Phoenix.…
Reconciling Your School’s Racist History
As a White woman progressing through college and my internship at Ed Trust, I have come to understand the…
Free and Reduced-Price Lunches Are Essential to a Child’s Education
My kid’s elementary school was located in an affluent part of town. But in a nondescript building about a…
Profiles in Education Equity: Kyle Strickland, the Kirwan Institute
Kyle Strickland is the senior legal analyst at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity. His…
6 Ways to Make Dual Enrollment Programs Equitable
Dual enrollment programs — which are partnerships between school districts and institutions of higher education that allow high school…
ExtraOrdinary Districts Special Edition: The Milford 11
In the summer after the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Delaware’s first African American…
Special Edition: Segregation, Integration and the Milford 11
Delaware’s first African American attorney went before the state’s first Catholic judge in 1952 to ask that Delaware’s schools…
Celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week — a time to celebrate the amazing educators across the country who work tirelessly to…