VIDEO: Answering the Call to Mentorship
Over 15 years ago, Jose Garza’s mentor responded to his desire to become a professor: “Jose, what schools really need are male Hispanic teachers. There are a lot of kids out there who would benefit...
View ArticleVIDEO: Bringing Our Students Back to the Classroom
In this video I join with a former student and now teacher at Los Angeles’ PUC Charter School (of which I am a founder) to speak on the importance of believing in students and the need for teachers to...
View ArticleUnlocking the Potential of Students of Color: This Teacher Starts With His Son
Inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates’ elegant Letter to My Son recently published in The Atlantic, I returned to an interview I filmed a couple of years ago of Jason Epting and his teenage son Keenan. Jason,...
View ArticleVIDEO: Guns Down, Books Up
Taking into consideration the education of our youth, we hope to build better partnerships with youth that will promote higher learning. New Haven’s own N-Finity Muzik performed “Guns Down Books Up” on...
View ArticleVIDEO: These Boston Charter Schools Are Getting Great Results With Great...
The stats at the beginning of this video are enough to blow you away. But it’s hearing the voices of the students and teachers themselves that really gives you a sense of what makes these schools strong.
View ArticleVIDEO: Every Child Should Have Access to the “Teaching Zone”
How much impact does an individual teacher make on a child’s future? This question keeps a lot of education researchers, policy wonks and teachers union representatives employed, but certainly the...
View ArticleVIDEO: In Colorado, We’re Elevating Expectations for All Students
The move to new and higher academic standards has looked (and sounded) different in states across the country. The raging—often political—debate about Common Core has obscured and complicated the goal...
View ArticleVIDEO: Zip Code School Assignment Didn’t Work Out for Me
Attending a good school in this country is a luxury, and that is wrong. I wasn’t one of the lucky ones, not until I found a small charter school in Providence, Rhode Island, and became a 10th grader,...
View ArticleVIDEO: Wendy Kopp on 25 Years of Teach For America and Looking Towards the...
This weekend thousands of corps members, alumni and staff will converge in Washington, D.C., for Teach For America’s (TFA) 25th anniversary. While it is a time for celebration, it is also an...
View ArticleWATCH: These Principals Will Make You Believe in the Power of Education
“I don’t think there’s a child out there who doesn’t want to learn and be the best they can be.” Those are the words of Barbara Preuss, a veteran educator with more than 30 years of experience. That is...
View ArticleVIDEO: Are Charter Schools Dividing the Black Community?
Making the Grade, a new partnership between Education Week and PBS News Hour, is so cool…and needed. Charter school news coverage has essentially become all the same: You can guess the setting, cast of...
View ArticleVIDEO: Turns Out Everything I Thought About Public Charter Schools Was Wrong
When I interviewed for a position with Blackstone Valley Prep (BVP) in Rhode Island almost three years ago, my perception of “charter schools” was very different from what it is today. While teaching...
View ArticleVIDEO: Students of Color at America’s Top Schools Are Made to Feel Thankful...
I recently wrote an article articulating my frustrations about fetishizing and valuing folks of color at elite institutions and wanted to follow-up with a video sharing the voices of other students of...
View ArticleWATCH: These Philly Parents Took a Freedom Ride to D.C. to Fight for Better...
On Wednesday, February 1, 2017, seven families from North Philadelphia set out on a journey for their children’s education. We called our journey a “Freedom Ride” in honor of the original Freedom...
View ArticleWATCH: Meet Marley Dias, the 12-Year-Old Activist and Author
Meet Marley Dias. She’s a 12-year-old activist and author. In November 2015, Marley launched #1000BlackGirlBooks with a goal to collect 1,000 books with Black women as protagonists. Her story went...
View ArticleVideo: This 11-Year-Old Created a Book Club to Encourage More Black Boys to Read
Sidney Keys III is the 11-year-old that created a book club to encourage more Black boys to read and then later founded Books N Bros, LLC in 2016. “Everytime I would go to the library at my school,...
View ArticleMeet the Chicago Senior With $1.6 Million in College Scholarships
I have been thinking about college since my elementary school days at Frazier Prep, a charter school on Chicago’s West Side, where every classroom is named after a college. Even before my senior year...
View ArticleVIDEO: Super Soaker Inventor Lonnie Johnson Is Helping Fund Young Engineers
Does the name Lonnie Johnson ring a bell? He’s the inventor of the Super Soaker. The popular water gun has grossed over $1 billion in sales. Now, Johnson wants to take the resources he’s earned over...
View ArticleVIDEO: The World Is Changing and These Students Won’t Be Left Behind
ReSchool Colorado is an initiative that is reimagining the school system with individual learners at the center of their own education. The video below tells the story from the perspective of a...
View ArticleVIDEO: Their Voices Matter. And So Does Yours.
Over the last three years, Education Post has built a national network of parents, teachers, students and others all across the country who have created online platforms to share their views on...
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