Teaching is a hard job. You are on your feet all day dealing with behavior and by the time the end of the day comes, you are ready to go home. Most teachers do just that, but there are a select few who don’t go straight home. Some teachers around the country do the exhausting…
Sunday, December 2, Roland Martin hosted a town hall entitled “School Choice is the Black Choice.” As one would expect, the event was attended in large part by black people who were pro-school choice, a welcome change for a typically polarizing issue. I took my seat, and I prepared to hear an informative back and…
A potential massacre was prevented Thursday in Richmond, Indiana. A school shooting was narrowly averted when someone called in a tip about a “potential violent act” at Dennis Intermediate School. As a result, Richmond Community Schools were placed on lockdown. The schools were on lockdown when the suspect arrived carrying a pistol and a rifle….
Indianapolis Superintendent Lewis Ferebee will be packing up and moving to Washington D.C. where he was just named the next leader of D.C. public schools last Monday by the mayor. Ferebee’s departure left a vacancy that the Indianapolis Public Schools commissioner board has decided to temporarily fill with Aleesia Johnson. Aleesia Johnson is infinitely qualified…
Title IX is a federal civil rights law designed to end discrimination and exclusion based on sex. The law is broad. It is most often referenced in sports but lately, the law has been under scrutiny because of its guidance around sexual harassment and assault. In 2010, the Obama administration issued further guidance explaining the…
When I was a student, teachers told me I had to work hard to go to college in order to get a white-collar job. The rationale was that robots were going to take all the other jobs. At the time this sounded like science fiction. Mostly because I, being a middle schooler, immediately imagined humanoid…
If you are part of education circles, then by now you have probably seen the viral photo of a group of boys giving what appears to be the Nazi “Sieg Heil!” salute. When the picture first emerged the superintendent of the school district, Lori Mueller pledged to address the incident: The photo of students posted…
An Indianapolis Catholic high school is once again under fire from the LGBT community as a second school employee has filed discrimination charges on the basis of her sexuality. This coming after a similar, very publicized claim by a different employee in August. This is not a particularly unique situation either. Unfortunately, many LGBT people…
Hate crimes, a crime motivated by a prejudice against the victim, are nothing new. Such actions have been around since differences between people have been defined, and they have been a particularly large part of American history. America has come a long way since the public lynchings of the early 1900s. However, recently hate crimes…
After a long wait, the Indiana Department of Education has finally released the A-F school accountability grades. These grades are for the 2017-2018 school year. Quick Hitters: 7% of Indiana schools received an A Only 93 Indiana schools, 4.4%, received an F 20 IPS schools received an F Around 22% of schools improved a letter…