The CSU system appears to be moving forward with the idea of requiring an additional quantitative reasoning course — but without first satisfying the faculty’s recommendation to study its potential impact.
What does it mean to connect mathematics to the pursuit of justice? For one thing, it means not letting math education interfere with justice.
It’s time to reconsider whether Algebra 2 really creates the opportunities we have long assumed and build more rigorous pathways that lead students to college.
Mentor-mentee relationships among formerly incarcerated students go beyond social, cultural, intellectual, and campus knowledge. These relationships can empower and transform the lives of students by increasing academic and employment opportunities.
As temperatures topped 90 degrees in the nation’s capital on Saturday, thousands of people gathered at Lafayette Square in front of the White House for a rally against the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” and family separation immigration policies.
Tomorrow, hundreds of thousands of people across the country are expected to march in protest of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” criminal prosecution of immigrants crossing the southern border, the forced separation of immigrant families by government officials, and the federal government’s lack of transparency regarding the location, welfare, and future of detained immigrant children.
Some of you have been reading with incredulity and disgust the newspapers, newsfeeds, and Twitter threads about the “immigration crisis” in the United States. What you have been reading — and perhaps avoiding — about “immigration enforcement” is, at heart, the latest manifestation of toxic and brutal white nationalism. And the situation is very bad.
Our new resource — Meaningful Local Engagement Under ESSA - Issue 2: A Handbook for Local Leaders on School Improvement — offers local leaders more detail about different school improvement strategies, as well as ways to collaborate more closely with community stakeholders to better assess need and align resources with chosen priorities.
Local school improvement planning efforts are set to begin this upcoming fall and will have serious implications for those schools defined as “underperforming” under a given state’s accountability system. It’s imperative that communities get involved and contribute to key decision-making processes at the local level.
Yesterday, Partners for Each and Every Child released a report highlighting promising engagement processes in eight California districts. The case studies illustrate how the five pillars of engagement are integral to regular, two-way dialogue with stakeholders to support and sustain educational equity.
Every year, still, I feel an achy hollowness in my chest. Sometimes there’s also a tightness and throbbing—like now, as I write this.
The first time, my ache was accompanied by a deep, grumbling fear. I was in 10th grade, vice president of the student body, sitting in the gym bleachers, about to share my thoughts with about 1,500 students, the morning of April 5, 1968. And I feared for the future of racial justice.
