May 11, 2022
Today thousands of Americans are gathered in Washington D.C., protesting the Biden Administraton’s gutting of a 37-year law called the Charter School Program (CSP). Through […]
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April 26, 2022
Lisa Hollenbach is Senior Digital Manager for brightbeam. She has also developed digital and content strategy for Teaching Channel and served on the Bill and […]
April 12, 2022
Sharif El-Mekki is the founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development. He is a former principal of Mastery Charter School–Shoemaker Campus and […]
January 26, 2022
2021 has a new moniker: “The Year of School Choice” with 18 states enacting seven new school choice programs and expanding 21 existing programs. All […]
January 6, 2022
WRIGHT: A Year After the Capitol Insurrection It’s Unclear Whether We Have Woken Up a Changed Nation
Zach Wright, a New Jersey resident, is an assistant professor of practice at Relay Graduate School of Education serving Philadelphia and Camden. Prior to that, […]
July 8, 2021
WHAT IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY? Critical race theory (sometimes abbreviated to CRT) is an intellectual approach to looking at U.S. society with a belief that racism […]
May 14, 2021
Christina Laster is the founder of the Inland Empire and San Diego Parent Unions. She is a former statewide community organizer with the California Policy […]
April 12, 2021
What is the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021? You may have heard it as the “second big COVID stimulus,” but the actual name is […]
March 30, 2021
A year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down U.S. schools. A year into the pandemic, 12 million students still lack adequate broadband access at home. The Federal […]
March 26, 2021
This is a op-ed by Andrew Pillow, a fifth-grade social studies teacher at a KIPP public charter school in Indianapolis, where he has taught for […]
January 21, 2021
Yesterday at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s inauguration, Amanda Gorman stole the show. Lady Gaga? J-Lo? Garth Brooks? No contest. This twenty-two-year-old […]
January 20, 2021
This is a post by Gregory Wickham, a New York City student. He is the son of best-selling writer Alina Adams, who manages brightbeam’s blog, New York School […]