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What Lowell High School Teaches Us About Educational Inequity in San Francisco
San Francisco’s Lowell High School is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River. It is one of California’s...
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Apr 3, 20235 min read


Black History Month and Black Exceptionalism
Every February, up to my senior year of high school, my teachers would teach some variation of a “classic” Black History Month lesson,...
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Mar 26, 20235 min read


Just a Matter of Time: Global Educational Equality
What would the world look like if we achieved universal education equality? Is this even possible? The United Nations has taken on this...
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Mar 13, 20235 min read


Want to Solve Childhood Hunger? Feed Kids
Childhood food insecurity is at an inflection point in America. While hunger was always a crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic spurred elected...
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Mar 12, 20234 min read


Feeling Like a Fraud? Welcome to the Club.
As you stroll around the Main Green, the daily bells echo across the busy campus—the starting gun to run to your next class. In that...
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Oct 28, 20225 min read


Public School Funding and Making More Out of Less: An Interview With Dr. Michael Kirst
Dr. Michael W. Kirst is Professor Emeritus of Education and Business Administration at Stanford University and the longest-serving...
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Oct 25, 20226 min read


Curricula in Crisis: The Slippery Slope of School Censorship
In the past year, a wave of intense debate surrounding the censorship of public school curricula has swept the nation, impacting students...
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Apr 22, 20224 min read


Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law Is Part of a Long-running Conservative Effort Target
On February 17, 2022 the Florida Senate advanced legislation that would ban discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in...
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Apr 16, 20225 min read


Will Biden Take Action on the Student Debt Crisis?
After a year in office, President Joe Biden has yet to follow through on his campaign promise to relieve the student debt crisis....
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Apr 14, 20224 min read


It’s Not Just a Southern Problem: How Northern Racism is Hiding Behind Opposition to Critical Race T
Should we teach our kids about the lasting impacts of slavery? In a country built on slave labor, this may seem an obvious question with...
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Oct 27, 20215 min read


Market Imperfections Across Stop & Shop, Brown University, and the Hospital
The American economy is unique for many reasons – most notably, its failure to regulate education and healthcare. In both sectors, this...
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Oct 23, 20216 min read


Disparities in Discipline: An Interview with Jayanti Owens
Jayanti Owens is the Mary Tefft and John Hazen White, Sr. Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown...
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Jun 18, 20215 min read


Closed Until Further Notice: How Covid-19 has left Panamanian children especially vulnerable
With 211 days of full school closure between March 2020 and February 2021, Panamanian schools have had a longer break from classroom...
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May 28, 20215 min read


Minimize the Frictions: An Interview with Sal Khan
Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a not-for-profit educational platform with 120 million registered users that offers free...
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Apr 6, 202111 min read


The Great Equalizer: How a constitutional right to education could save our schools
The word “education” appears in the constitutions of 185 of the 193 recognized states in the world. Of the eight countries that do not...
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Apr 6, 20214 min read


“Just-Wing-It”: America’s Sub-Par Solution to Teaching Personal Finance
Personal finance is one of the rare issues that can unite people on all fronts. We all have money, and we all have to manage it at some...
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Dec 28, 20205 min read


High Poverty Schools can be High Performing
Public schools are responsible for educating all students; however, in poor and minority communities, they often don’t succeed. Students...
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Dec 19, 20205 min read


When the Majority Suffers: The Case for Intellectual Diversity on College Campuses
2020 has been a tumultuous year. Even without considering COVID-19, the internal strife within the United States is at its explosive...
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Dec 16, 20206 min read


A Turning Point for Combating Chronic Absenteeism in American Schools
Before the coronavirus pandemic, chronic absenteeism was a growing epidemic of its own kind that rocked schools across the country....
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Dec 15, 20206 min read


Big Ed-Tech Is Watching You: Privacy, Prejudice, and Pedagogy in Online Proctoring
In the pandemic-era scramble of digital education delivery, the line between public and private has been unduly blurred. Remote learning...
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Dec 6, 20205 min read
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