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Despite Rising Fear and Anxiety, DACA Activists Keep Up the Pressure
Washington State University students and community members rally in support of the DREAM Act on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. (Geoff Crimmins/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP) It’s been an emotional...
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How NEA is Working to Diversify Wall Street
If you follow the money on Wall Street, it almost always can be found in the hands of powerful asset management firms whose ownership ranks are almost always absent of women and people of color. In...
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Massachusetts Initiative Prioritizes Hiring Teachers of Color
Audrey Murph-Brown (Murph), a school social worker of 26 years and a member of the Springfield Education Association (SEA) in Massachusetts, describes the events that occurred in the 2017 – 2018 school...
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The Impact of the U.S. Occupation on the Hawaiian People
U.S. troops come ashore. The Hawaiian Kingdom was a progressive constitutional monarchy since 1840 and it viewed education and health care as cornerstones for the country’s maintenance in the...
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Educators Share the Power of Stories
Sonia Galaviz at the “Keeping the Promise of Public Education” symposium. “I shouldn’t even be here… I shouldn’t even be breathing…for much of my youth, I lived in this darkness,” Jake Miller, a middle...
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At the Border, Teachers Protest Detention, Separation of Children
(photo: Rebeca Logan) On a makeshift stage in El Paso, Texas, former Texas Regional Teacher of the Year Leslie Anaya delivered a message to the roughly 15,000 immigrant children who are held captive in...
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NEA to Supreme Court: Do the Right Thing for DACA Educators
Today, in a legal brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, the National Education Association urged justices to protect the thousands of educators who rely on a federal immigration policy known as DACA...
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A Hidden History of Integration and the Shortage of Teachers of Color
Evelyn J. Chatmon, the first African American female assistant superintendent in Baltimore County Public Schools, grew up under Jim Crow in Maryland during the 1940s and 50s. Even though she could see...
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Ethnic Studies Classes Growing in Popularity
When Indiana teacher Joe Gamble attended the high school where he now works, he didn’t have the option of taking an ethnic-studies class that might explore the history of African-Americans, like him,...
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Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Elimination of DACA
Dreamers and DACA supporters rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, June 18, 2020, after the court rejected the Trump administration’s push to end DACA. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call...
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