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NPR Blogger Accidentally Exposes an Underlining Issue in Education 'Reform'

This morning I opened my Twitter account to catch up on all of the education news across the country when in the middle of my computer screen I saw this tweet from NPR’s Lead Education Blogger, Anya Kamenetz.   The first time I read it, I thought I had misread it, but after looking at all […]

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Teaching "At Risk" Children: Advanced Placement Classes Saved My Life

I can remember sitting in my Advanced Placement (commonly referred to as AP) classes throughout high school and counting on one hand how many girls who looked like me were in the class. Sometimes there would be one or two, but more than likely it was just me and just maybe one more girl in […]