What TikTok can teach educators
Kids are learning on TikTok. Leaders also should be learning from it—not from the content but from how it engages students.
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Category: Policy Solutions
Should school board elections be partisan?
School board politics could benefit from being a more vibrant space, but we should be careful with empowering political parties.
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The case for sensory civics education
We, as a society, need to see the true urgency of civics education. We take it for granted that students will gain this knowledge somehow, but when it comes to making it part of the curriculum, we treat it as an outdated luxury feature.
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70 years later, Brown v. Board is the great American underachievement
The Brown v. Board ruling may be America’s greatest underachievement.
Why have we underachieved? The racial injustices we see in our education system don’t persist because of a lack of effort.
Pandemic recovery will depend on political rediscovery
Polarizing views on controversial issues are at the center of the conversation about education and the election in 2024.
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Policy, not politics
Jonathan Collins outlines the four major education policy questions to ask heading into the 2024 presidential election.
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Education policy reform for the hip-hop era
Jonathan E. Collins writes about the 50th anniversary of hip-hop and how policy makers should be making the genre a part of their education work.
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We need a school board election holiday
National holidays are a special part of American culture. They shape our view of the yearly...
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How teachers and ed tech can help each other
In the 1990s, computer access was a reward for students. I remember the glee of playing Number...
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Should superintendents be elected?
A troubling truism haunts the American education policy arena. Almost as sure as the sun rises and...
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Transgender students: Navigating the politics
One morning in early June, I sipped coffee inside a hotel conference room with floor-to-ceiling...
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Was the LeBron James school a false promise?
In August, basketball superstar LeBron James made headlines in the education policy circles. It...
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