It is the weekend before my students arrive for the new school year. I am in my classroom listening to Lofi beats, pondering what has been and what is to come. All around my room are reminders of my ...

A student walks between classes at Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kan., on the first day of in-person learning, March 30. MELISSA: Well, it's that time of year that kids are settling back into ...

THEY PLAN TO GET THAT DONE. GROWING UP AS A LATINO IN MILWAUKEE, SAUL LOPEZ SAYS HE RARELY SAW HIMSELF IN HIS TEACHERS. I HAD 1 OR 2 TEACHERS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT WERE LATINO IN HIGH SCHOOL. I ...

Working every day with teachers and students of color in Lawrence, Brockton, and inner-city schools across the region, I know firsthand how vital it is that students interact with leaders who look ...

Plenty of studies have shown that both students of color and white students benefit from having teachers of color. However, there really aren’t near enough teachers of color in the classroom, and ...

Are the pupils gloomy, nervous, inattentive? Does the teacher complain of eyestrain? It may be the classroom’s “schoolhouse-brown” paint. Last week New York’s public school system, which adopted ...

“Start sharing. Don’t be shy,” the facilitator said at the start a training last week for Asian, black, and Hispanic men hoping to teach in the New York City school system. He’d asked them to name a ...

A new city contract with the teachers' union says that in the event of layoffs, white teachers could be let go regardless of seniority in order to retain teachers of color in the classroom. Kate & ...