January 18, 2018
Article Online:  Hearings Confirm One Thing: Betsy DeVos Is Unqualified To Lead The Nation’s Public Schools
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December 14, 2017
Article Online:  679 Murders And Counting: How Can We Connect Chicago’s Youth?
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December 7, 2017
Article Online:  Open Letter to the Secretary of Education Designate: Focus on Equity & Opportunity
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December 6, 2017
Article Online:  Brain Science Gives Us Evidence That Effort — Not IQ Or ZIP Code — Paves The Path To Success
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November 30, 2017
Article Online:  “Money Games:” The Shame of College Football
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November 3, 2017
We Are All Eagles: Combating Implicit Bias in Schools with Belief, Hope and Confidence
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October 16, 2017
Article Online:  Why We Should All Take A Knee For Black And Brown Children
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September 29, 2017
Guarding Against Damaging Implicit Racial Bias — Even In Our Preschools
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September 13, 2017
No Forty Acres, No Mule
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August 23, 2017
Confronting Implicit Bias In Sports, On The Streets And In Our Schools
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August 16, 2017
Dismantling Racial Hierarchies, Ending Miseducation
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July 23, 2017
Conservative Pundit Gets it Wrong in Analysis of Social Science Research
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July 12, 2017
Governor Christie v. The Children Of New Jersey: Political Racism?

July 10, 2017
Article Online:  A police officer didn’t kill Philando Castile. Implicit bias did.
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July 2, 2017
Is Racism Still Alive In America? That’s Affirmative

June 3, 2017
Debunking the Myth of White Supremacy By Achieving, Excelling and Giving Back

May 25, 2017
Less Talk, More Action: Collaborating to Reduce Racial Disparities in Education

May 19, 2017
Article Online:  Tearing Down the Structures – and the Systems – That Keep Racism Alive
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May 5, 2017
Article Online:  Old Times They Are Not Forgotten
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April 28, 2017
Texas Western v. Kentucky, 1966: Reflections on the Game that Benched Jim Crow and Changed America

April 15, 2017
Make America Great: Get All Our Children “Off the Reservation” 

April 1, 2017
How Gov. Jindal’s Voucher Program is Like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments

March 16, 2017
Education and Cultural Celebration Can Stop Bullying Before It Begins

January 16, 2017
Education, Integration and Equality: The Way to Make America Great

December 22, 2016
Remembering the Children In Values, Words and Deeds

November 30, 2016
Black Minds Matter

November 12, 2016
The Endless Struggle For Racial Equity – A ‘Dream’ Denied

September 30, 2016
Donald Trump vs. Pope Francis: When It Comes to Social Justice, Words Matter

September 21, 2016
Outthinking Robots: How Authentic Learning Leads Black and Brown Children to Equity and Opportunity

September 8, 2016
Sharing the Weight of the American Dream with Black and Brown Youth

August 10, 2016
Pushing College Students to Excel: New Partnership Values the Player as Much as the Game

June 4, 2016
Reparations Would Help Close Wealth Gap in America

May 19, 2016
The Atlanta Cheating Scandal: Students Were the Victims, but the School System Suffers Too

May 12, 2016
It’s All About Race

May 1, 2016
Toward Translating Success for Black and Brown Children

June 28, 2015
Harvesting Teachers of Color to Improve — And Save — Lives

June 2, 2015
Despite the Rhetoric, Teachers and Students Are Succeeding

May 30, 2015
Hedge-Fund Billionaires Seek Reform Without Research

May 26, 2015
March Madness: A Game Plan for Higher Education and College Athletes

May 24, 2015
Racism Brews Hotter While Too Many of Us Sip Our Coffee in Silence

May 3, 2015
Why Aren’t More People of Color Labeled ‘Gifted’? Unlocking the Genius in All of Us

April 29, 2015
When We Hand Down the Magic, Children and Teachers Succeed

April 15, 2015
We Didn’t Start the War on Poverty, but We Owe It to Our Children to Win It

March 25, 2015
Desegregation and the Highway of Justice: How Segregated, Under-resourced Schools Are Failing Children

March 7, 2015
Math: The Next Revolution in Black Achievement

February 7, 2015
Institutions, Schools and Parents Must Reject or Change Stereotypes that Foster Racism

January 31, 2015
Stop Meaningless Debates and Learn From Schools That Work

January 11, 2015
The American Dream Begins With a Belief That All Can Succeed

January 6, 2015
Learning While Black

November 3, 2014
Public Education’s Deeper Purpose

October 26, 2014
Hopeful Teaching and Learning: The One Who Makes a Difference

October 19, 2014
Toward Our Shared Humanity

October 8, 2014
No Easy Victories

September 24, 2014
Why “Courageous” Dinner Conversations Are Important

September 15, 2014
An Education System That Works

August 19, 2014
Improving Conditions — Unless You’re Black

July 22, 2014
Students Who Encounter Diversity in School Are More Prepared for the Workforce

July 14, 2014
A Harsh Sentence for Our Communities

July 6, 2014
Working to End Illiteracy and Social Injustice Around the World

June 25, 2014
Because Race Still Matters

June 4, 2014
The Real Madness: College Athletes Who Can’t Read

May 28, 2014
Improving Adult Education Will Help the U.S. Catch Up with Slovakia and Estonia

May 14, 2014
A Nation Founded on Equality Continues to Stumble Over Skin Color

May 10, 2014
Three Suggestions for ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Initiative

May 6, 2014
For our young men of color, do we have the will to make a way?

April 29, 2014
If ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Is to Succeed, the White House and Philanthropists Must Focus on Education Reform

April 9, 2014
What NAEP Tells Us About How Much America Cares About Black Children

April 2, 2014
With Racial Disparities Aplenty, We Still Need Black History Month

March 17, 2014
In Education, As in Our Nation, We Rise and Fall Together

March 9, 2014
Let’s Teach Students to Think Critically, Not Test Mindlessly

February 19, 2014
Names Can Be Magical — Or Maddening, Depending on Your Perspective

February 8, 2014
Real Education Reform Happens in the Classroom — Unlocking the Gifts of Teacher Quality

January 26, 2014
Poverty Costs Us All, But Children of Color Pay the Highest Price

January 23, 2014
Exposing More Students to What We Know Works

January 23, 2014
To Charter School or Not to Charter School — That’s Not the Real Question

January 23, 2014
‘A Teacher’s Cry for Help’

November 30, 2013
How One NYC School Transformed Its Classrooms and School Culture to Boost Achievement

November 23, 2013
Brain Science Holds Key to Instilling Love of Learning

November 3, 2013
Repairing Urban Education

October 28, 2013
With the ‘Fierce Urgency of Now,’ Striving to Realize MLK’s Dream

September 16, 2013
The Zimmerman Verdict as a Teachable Moment

September 8, 2013
Schools Remain the Frontline in Battle to End Racial Stereotyping, Inequality

August 25, 2013
Building a Country’s Growth Mindset

August 12, 2013
Tales from the ‘Magic City’

July 22, 2013
Student’s Rant Speaks Volumes for What Ails Our Classrooms
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July 16, 2013
The Hope Factor

July 8, 2013
In Education, Solutions Should Celebrate — Not Remediate