student success

Back to School, Back to Basics With Parent-Teacher Partnerships

The smell of education is in the air. Parents have bought uniforms and school supplies are packed up and ready to go. Teachers have completed their beginning of the year requirements, decorated their...

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low income

How a Dozen Immigrant Parents Organized to Transform Literacy in Their District

Parents’ love for their children is the single greatest—and most underutilized—natural resource in education. I learned this firsthand as a son. My parents escaped political persecution and made...

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School Quality

Help Other Parents Find the Best Schools for Their Kids by Sharing Your Story

When we want to improve things, we often talk about what is broken. But if we truly want to find solutions, we need to pay more attention to what is working. Education in America provides a perfect...

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parent engagement

If We Really Want to Change Our Schools, We Need to Get Real About What's Happening in Them

Thirteen years after Hurricane Katrina and the reunification of all schools under the governing of Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB), we are still having conversations about how to make schools...

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Poverty

This Thanksgiving I'm Thankful for All the Education Advocates Who Make Doing This Work Just a Little Bit Easier

Outrage: Distractions Y’all, I’m irritated. The internet stays failing us and we believe almost everything we see and hear without doing our own research. Over the weekend, there were pictures from a...

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Chicago

None of These Politicians Who Are Running for Office Are For Real Talking About Education

Outrage: You Want Our Vote, We Demand Your Plan I was at a community meeting the other night and an eighth-grader stood up and said, “If we’re all one district then why is my community seeing so many...

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