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America’s schools are more segregated now than they were in the late 1960s.

I’m sitting in my office with Sam, a senior, whose counselor brought him to see me. He missed more school than he attended last year and has started this school year in similar fashion. His counselor thought that a meeting with me might help emphasize the importance of better choices.

Susie King Taylor's illegal education as an enslaved child turned her into a teenage teacher and nurse during the Civil War.

Third grade was a bad year. Third grade was the year I learned in school that I was poor.

When we talk about devoting so many minutes to each subject in a school day, we need to make time for students to communicate about what really matters to them.

When I teach lessons about Martin Luther King Jr., I always wonder exactly how students will connect with the events and themes. My adult students are refugees and immigrants from different cultural backgrounds. Some of them were cultural minorities in their countries. Others are experiencing racial discrimination for the first time in the United States.

Missing an opportunity to speak up creates another opportunity–to practice for next time.

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