A critical question is being pondered by many parents of color: How do I prepare my son or daughter to replicate or exceed the successes of my gener...

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Regardless of the school or the district where my travels lead me, there is a particular group of students who are immediately identifiable by educato...

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Written By Alicia Jones Memphis City Schools Student Envoy & 11th grade student at Overton High School Some might think that the whole Envoy ...

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Proficiency is a provocative word given the prevalence of high-stakes testing in modern American public education. But it’s not up to test creators to...

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Under the right conditions, normal human beings can learn to do anything — from speaking human languages, to Advanced Placement Calculus, all the way ...

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If you are like me, you’ve been on one or two class trips in your day, either as a chaperone or back when you were a student. I was in high school ban...

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Imagine a teacher receives a pacing guide at the beginning of the year. The expectation? She and her students are to run 1800 miles over the course of...

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