Profiles in Education Equity Series
March 13, 2018 by EdTrust Over the years, we at Ed Trust have had ample opportunities to work with amazing advocates across the nation who are committed to improving the education of historically underserved students.…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Be a Part of the Solution
July 05, 2017 by Sarah Giddings Sarah Giddings is a National Board Certified teacher in social studies and history with the Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium in Ypsilanti, Michigan, an alternative school serving at-risk youth countywide. She…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To Give Students Their Fair Shot
June 05, 2017 by Kristin Re Kristin Re is a teacher at The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence, Rhode Island, and she is a Teach Plus–Rhode Island Teaching Policy Fellow. About half of…
Why I Teach Where I Teach: Representation Matters
May 15, 2017 by Ashley McCall Ashley McCall is a third-grade bilingual teacher at César E. Chávez Multicultural Academic Center in Chicago, Illinois, and a Teach Plus–Illinois Teaching Policy Fellow. The student body at Chavez is…
Organizing Schools Around Learning
April 10, 2017 by Karin Chenoweth People who haven’t hung around schools much might be puzzled by the essential argument that I am making in my new book, Schools That Succeed, which is that schools should…
The Scientific Method in Action
April 05, 2017 by Karin Chenoweth For many years I wrote a regular newspaper column about schools in Prince George’s County, Maryland. I noticed that one of the high schools had been recognized as having more…
Marshaling the Power of Schools
March 27, 2017 by Karin Chenoweth I can’t remember a time when I didn’t think of public schools as the crucible of American democracy, founded to provide all children — independent of family circumstances — with…
Here Are Some Schools You Should Visit, Secretary DeVos
February 15, 2017 by Karin Chenoweth On one of her first days on the job, Betsy DeVos did what any U.S. Secretary of Education might do: She visited a public school. Such an event might have…
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