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Meet Newark’s Own Amanda Gorman, Seventh-Grade Poet Makayla Brown

A month ago, as Amanda Gorman shared her beautiful prose during President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ inauguration,…

4 years ago

Middletown Parent: Teacher’s #BlackLivesMatter Sign Was Censored But Not a MAGA Flag?

This is a letter from David Cohen, a Middletown High School parent, in response to the school board's decision to…

4 years ago

You Can Hate Trump And Support School Choice

Every time Donald Trump says, “school choice is the civil rights issue of our time,” I cringe. It’s hard to…

4 years ago

For White Teachers of Black Children.

This is a guest post by Mark Joseph, a sixth-grade math teacher at KIPP Rise Academy in Newark, where he…

4 years ago

At A Loss For Words, Knowing I Need to Speak

This is a guest post by Patrick Riccards, executive director of Best in the World Teachers. Riccards, a resident of…

4 years ago

It Doesn’t Just Happen at Starbucks. Teachers Need Racial Bias Training Too.

Zachary Wright is the 12th-grade world literature and AP Literature teacher at Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus where he has been for the last eight…

6 years ago

Here’s What It’s Like to Have a Teacher Think You Can’t Write Because You’re a Black Boy From Trenton.

(This piece, originally published at Education Post, is by Tre Johnson, a freelance writer on race, culture and politics. He’s also…

7 years ago

All Hail NJEA. All Jeer UFT.

When I was growing up in New York City, visitors from New Jersey were disparagingly mocked as the “bridge and…

7 years ago