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When Melvin Middleton Jr. started his first year teaching in the late 1990s, he discovered he was the only classroom teacher who was a man of color at his elementary school. Middleton said he also faced stereotypes in the Florida school where he taught second and third graders, including that, as a Black man . […]
Amid a historic U.S. teacher shortage, a ‘Most Outstanding Teacher’ from the Philippines tries to help save a struggling school in rural Arizona October 2, 2022 at 12:51 p.m. EDT Rose Jean Obreque assists a student during class at Fox Creek Junior High School in Bullhead City, Ariz., on Sept. 13. Obreque is one of […]
Thousands of Black and Latino former teachers in New York City stand to collect more than $1 billion after the city recently stopped fighting a decadeslong discrimination lawsuit that found a licensing test was biased. The concession by the city in recent months means around 4,700 onetime New York City teachers who were demoted or […]
Thousands of Black and Latino former teachers in New York City stand to collect more than $1 billion after the city recently stopped fighting a decadeslong discrimination lawsuit that found a licensing test was biased. The concession by the city in recent months means around 4,700 onetime New York City teachers who were demoted or […]
First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about public education. After clinging to the climbing ropes and losing to the stopwatch during a physical fitness test, I was devastated when my teacher told me I would “never amount to anything.” I was in second grade, […]
This week, educators are once again grappling with how to discuss a mass shooting that appears to have been motivated by bigotry, just as they did in 2019 after a shooting rampage targeting Mexicans at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas; in 2018 after a massacre at a synagogue in Pittsburgh; and
From making students feel safe and accepted to encouraging them to dream big and think outside the box, this year’s Distinguished Secondary School Teacher Awardees (DSSTA) have shaped their students’ lives in various, meaningful ways. Given annually to five teachers from amongst nominations submitted by graduating seniors, the Northwestern University Distinguished Secondary School Teacher Award honors […]
The district has long argued it operates too many schools for the declining number of students it serves. An estimated 35% of district schools are enrolled at “below sustainable” levels, according to officials, who attribute that drop to factors such as lower birth rates, pandemic-related moves, and a lack of affordable housing. Fewer students means […]
When I was a special education teacher at Myrtle Grove Elementary School in Miami in 2010, my colleagues and I recommended that a Black girl receive special education services because she had difficulty reading. However, her mother disagreed. When I asked her why, she explained that she, too, was identified as having a learning disability […]
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — To walk down the halls of Mastery Shoemaker Charter School with Sharif El-Mekki is like walking with a rock star. Everyone knows who he is, and everyone loves him. “El-Mekki!” shouted Mastery Shoemaker 12th grader Malachi Roseborough as he sees the veteran educator of 26 years walking near the front office. “You […]