Magnet school programs claim to help young people achieve excellence, but students of color often report shouldering the weight of historic and systemic discrimination.
New England joins a growing number of regions incorporating Asian American history into school curriculum in response to the rise in anti-Asian hate and violence.
In majority-white regions like New England, reflective literature is especially important.
Since last summer’s racial reckoning, school boards are making more proactive moves to address institutional racism—but are they doing enough?
Educational leaders Alejandro Fuentes and Tania Chairez discuss the reforms still needed to secure the uncertain futures of undocumented youth.
Without proper infrastructure in public schools, students and teachers face consequences that go far beyond their physical health.
Parents and educators say standardized testing will add more stress and deepen inequities in education for students already struggling with the pandemic.
The Texas State Board of Education has historically been influenced by conservatives on issues like this, but teachers and activists are hoping that will change.
The past year has been a chaotic year for students across the country, who have been forced to switch to remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, students in Texas have experienced another disruption to their education: the Texas winter storm. Schools across the state closed last week as
Maria Montessori Academy, a charter school in North Ogden, Utah, made headlines this month after allowing several families to opt their children out of Black History Month curriculum. The principal of the school wrote in a Facebook post that he “reluctantly” gave parents the option in order to allow them
For much of its existence, a majority of U.S. history has been told through the narrow and exclusionary lens of “American exceptionalism.” A distortion of the historical record where historians have steered a one-dimensional, Eurocentric, white male-dominated narrative that has presented historical figures and events in ways that were
This narrative in the Unheard Voices of the Pandemic series from Voice of Witness is published with permission, as part of a partnership with Prism. Interview and editing by Ela Banerjee. Oscar Ramos teaches second grade in Salinas, which is the capital of the Salinas Valley and known as the
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