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We cannot teach race without addressing what it means to be ‘white’
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
What happened to the $100 million Mark Zuckerberg gave to Newark schools?
Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg pledged to give $100 million to help improve Newark schools. The money would go towards everything from teacher pay to improving ... -
How do we give rural students more educational opportunities?
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding a P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts ... -
Schools Should Shout Their Success Stories from the Rooftops
Consumer and social media are adept at sharing negative news about education. Here’s how administrators and teachers can get the good news out there, too. ... -
4 Interesting Facts about Education in Mississippi
Mississippi is my home state, and an interesting state at that. Some time ago I wrote an article about what MLK would say about education in ... -
Top 3 Ways to Improve Learning in Schools…Using School Lunches
As we all know, nutrition and educational performance are related. And with one third of the U.S.’s 300 million residents obese, it is more important now ... -
3 Solutions to the High School Dropout Problem
By Matthew Lynch Bleak numbers surround the national high school dropout rate. Many of society’s other problems – like unemployment, poverty and overcrowded prisons – can ... -
Could the Flipped Learning Model be the Ticket to Increased Student Learning?
A guest post by Dr. Matthew Stoltzfus, Chemistry Lecturer at The Ohio State University Instructors are constantly looking for ways to improve student performance—both traditionally and ... -
K-12 education: The art of the flop
“**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
Study: Nearly 90 percent of full-time professors are white
According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, just 16 percent of full-time professors at post-secondary institutions are minorities. That means that 84 percent of those ...