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Detroit schools closing due to underfunding and horrible conditions

A perception problem in public education

The importance of librarians in leadership positions

Dr. Turner Nashe’s remarkable story shows how injustices he suffered helped propel him to become involved in the welfare of inmates.

As school systems become more globally competent and teachers become more knowledgeable and gain comfort with infusing global competence into the classrooms, students are expected to expand their knowledge incrementally as well.

Our schools similarly need to light fires on the water and invite schools across the world in to share in learning starting from their own communities outward. These fires that burn on the water are a clarion call to see the local as global and to more deeply spark imagination, nourish learning, and build the innovation, action, and creativity young people need to face the problems they will one day inherit.

This generation doesn’t buy newspapers…

Before I wrote this article, I decided not to be some stuffy suit who decides she knows what’s good for others

What would it feel like to not have your culture acknowledged at all, or have it taught in an inaccurate or stereotyped fashion