Five years ago you’d find me at every protest, donned in protest gear and equipped with signs, screaming and chanting about the injustices faced by my people. This put me in a strange space of rage, mixed with the hope and energizing space of hundreds of people showing up for the same cause. At one…
That seems like the most appropriate question to ask after my team released “The Secret Shame of Progressive Cities” last week, a report highlighting the fact that gaps in educational outcomes are larger in the wealthiest and most progressive American cities than they are in the most conservative cities. Our report pointed out the fact…
An eye-opening report has just been published that serves as a warning about how far removed the rhetoric of progressives can be from the reality of what the policies they support are doing—or not doing—for students. In public schools across America, black and Latino kids have trailed their white peers in reading, math and high…