In addition to the usual conversations that mark the beginning of the new school year, this year we’ve seen a lot of conversation about student learning loss that has happened during the pandemic. The powers that be have begun to move on from learning loss to what to sell do about it. It may be…
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…
My grandfather was in his late 30s when he first learned to read and later went on to complete his GED at the age of 42. With his formal education ending around age nine so he could start working, and during a time when if caught reading he would be attacked, threatened, or possibly murdered…