In a Commentary Q&A, Monique W. Morris, co-founder and president of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute, discusses her new book Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. 

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The Plight of Black Girls in K-12 Schools (Q&A With Monique W. Morris)

In a Commentary Q&A, Paul Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why, discusses the role environment plays in fostering students’ noncognitive skills.

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Environment Matters For Student Success (Q&A With Paul Tough)

Q&A With Christopher Emdin: Making Students of Color a Priority

"I knew it was going to be hard," Miriam told me, describing her first two years of teaching fourth and fifth grade in a hard-pressed urban district on the West Coast. Her eyes unexpectedly welled with tears. "But it's harder than you expect."

Coming Back for More: A Beginning Teacher on Her First Two Years

Mike Koprowski, the chief of transformation and innovation in the Dallas school district discusses the district's expanded school choice options and efforts to enhance socio-economic diversity.

Interview with Mike Koprowski

In an interview with Education Week, the iconic yet controversial scholar and author E.D. Hirsch discusses the importance of background knowledge for reading.

E.D. Hirsch on text as a “two-way creation”

E.D. Hirsch on why “text complexity” is a myth

E.D. Hirsch on the “sad story” of France

J.D. Vance, author of the bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, rose from working-class Appalachia to Yale Law School. He spoke with Education Week about poverty, the opioid epidemic and education, and how those three issues intersect.

Hillbilly Elegy Author J.D. Vance on Poverty and the Opioid Epidemic

Niya Kenny had just intended to document what she feared could be a bad situation.  But when she encouraged her classmates at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., to join her in recording a student’s violent arrest by a school police officer in 2015, she never suspected videos would spread across the internet and ignite fierce debate about school discipline and law enforcement. ... Read more at www.edweek.org/go/PolicingQA.

Arrested in School: Niya Kenny's Story (Audio Interview)

In an Education Week Commentary Q&A, Gary Younge, editor-at-large of The Guardian, urges educators to remember the youngest victims of gun violence and to seek solutions that stop the bullets.

Seven Students Die Every Day (Q&A With Gary Younge)

In an Education Week Commentary Q&A, journalist Peggy Orenstein says the current sex education framework fails to prepare kids for positive sexual encounters and relationships.

We Aren't Doing Enough to Teach Girls About Sex (Q&A With Peggy Orenstein)

School success is often measured by test scores, but they don’t paint an accurate picture, says Jack Schneider in an Education Week Commentary Q&A. 

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Test Scores Don't Tell the Whole Story (Q&A With Jack Schneider)

Though public education is far from perfect, it needs our unequivocal support to improve, say educators Deborah Meier and Emily Gasoi in a Q&A.

Why We Can't Give Up on Our Public Schools (Q&A With Deborah Meier & Emily Gasoi)

How school leaders should embrace conversations about race and other insights from bestselling author Beverly Daniel Tatum.

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Why All the Black Kids Are Still Sitting Together in the Cafeteria (Q&A With Beverly Daniel Tatum)

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