Education

The Dangers of Erasing Black Voices

At the start of this school year, a white male student at Gettysburg College used a…

Parents are more important than schools, but there’s a catch.

“In Sparta parents would say to their children, ‘Come home with your shield or on…

Recalibrating Our Schools to Center Care

The recent New York Times headline questioning whether the $190 billion provided to districts and schools…

Invisible Wounds: End Higher Ed Internalized Racism

With graduation ceremonies concluded at campuses across the country, state and national leaders are dismantling…

The U.S. is coming apart at the racial seams. We can help our children knit it together.

If as a society we are to author a brighter multiracial future than the one to which we seem headed, young people must lead the way.

Schools Must Teach Students How to Recognize Fake News

Social media is flooded with fake news. The sheer amount of misinformation, disinformation and propaganda online makes it nearly impossible to avoid or track.

STEM At Risk? Higher Ed Must Heed Humanities Warnings

Humanists have long understood themselves as the canary in the coal mine of higher education. …

Brown Vs. Board: Our Role in Achieving Integrated and Equitable Schools

May 17, 2024 marked the 70th anniversary of the groundbreaking Supreme Court case, Brown Vs.…

Follow up in Higher Ed: Responses to DEI Attacks Require Deep Support

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and access initiatives continue to be under attack in many states, including Illinois, Texas, Florida, Tennessee, as well as…

Why cultivating mutual respect in elementary schools is so important to preserving democracy

Election year or not, the dissolution of respect in our society is as obvious as…

Teen’s Hair Threatens White Supremacy, not Education

High school student Darryl George has been kept from school, suspended for months because he…

Black Lives (don’t) Matter in Higher Education

As a Black tenure-track professor, I was surprised when I walked onto my current campus and realized…

Equipping Educators for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

According to a recent survey conducted by the Cengage Group and Bay View Analytics, a mere 16% of educators feel…

Dialectical Thinking, Love Ethics, and Enduring a Strike

The climate at California State Universities is uneasy. Collective bargaining negotiations between the California Faculty…

Diversity has become a dirty word, and not because it deserves to be.

The new year started with this lesson. Claudine Gay, the first Black woman president of…