Guest Commentary: A Different Kind of Education Promise

The founder of a Black teacher pipeline wonders: Isn’t it time to make a long-term investment in our public school children’s futures?

By Sharif El-Mekki

Guest Commentary: Believe in Black Students

Here are some ways schools can take action and demonstrate a commitment to anti-racism that is essential for reducing pandemic learning loss

By Sharif El-Mekki

Guest Commentary: Tackling Illiteracy

The first-ever virtual Freedom Schools Literacy Academy models liberation education — and gets results

By Sharif El-Mekki

Guest Commentary: Teaching Black Children is a Revolutionary Act

The director of a Black teacher training program pens an open letter to new educators for their “subversive act of hope”

By Sharif El-Mekki

Guest Commentary: Is Progressivism Letting Down Our Kids?

A longtime educator/activist bemoans the dilemma of progressive cities like Philly, where everyone progresses, except for Black and Brown children.

By Sharif El-Mekki

Black Teachers Are Not Enough

A Mastery principal notes that schools also need support to keep those—and all—teachers in their jobs

By Sharif El-Mekki

Citizen Of The Week: Nasihah Thompson-King

As her Mastery-Shoemaker principal attests, the high schooler benched from basketball because of her hijab is a freedom fighter for our times

By Sharif El-Mekki

I’ve Known Gun Violence

A Mastery high school principal who is both a gun owner and gunshot victim on why guns in schools makes kids less safe

By Sharif El-Mekki