Completing the FAFSA significantly increases the odds students will continue their education beyond high school into a postsecondary education program of study. This fact is especially true among low-income students and students of color.
Filling out FAFSA is first step toward higher ed equity Read More »
To continue the current, flawed approach to financial literacy education means maintaining economic inequities. All students, but especially students of color and those not classified as having “high” social-economic status, need and deserve access to these courses.
Financial literacy courses are an essential component of educational equity Read More »
We are just in our first year, and yet the American Indian Academy of Denver (AIAD) is making history, providing an education that seemed unimaginable even 10 years ago.
American Indian Academy of Denver is healing our community Read More »
It has been unsettling to our families and staff that until now, the conversation about our fate has been avoided in the Reimagining Montbello process. Our families are part of the Montbello community.
STRIVE Prep should be integral to a reimagined Montbello campus Read More »
These women, these brown women, mattered to me and made a difference in my educational journey. We should celebrate them this Women’s History Month for all of the lives they have touched.
Celebrating teachers who look like me during Women’s History Month Read More »
I learned then the importance of phonics instruction and the progression from sounds to words, to phrases, to sentences, to paragraphs, and so on. These foundational facts changed the way I approached teaching middle and high school.
Teachers must understand how students learn to read Read More »
If we can at least agree that the 2020-21 school year has exacerbated opportunity gaps and increased the likelihood that students suffering the consequences of those gaps have fallen farther behind their more affluent peers, then optional, full-time summer school provides an obvious, if partial, remedy.
There’s huge need for full-time summer school, yet it won’t happen Read More »
After last week’s Denver school board work session, charter school students, parents, staff, and boards have legitimate reasons to worry about their future in Denver Public Schools.
DPS board members tightening vise on charter schools Read More »
I think it’s essential for young people to understand the value of savings, credit, interest rates and investing to build the future every one of us deserves, and attain generational wealth.
High-schoolers need financial education Read More »
In the days before mandated state testing, schools could hide their dismal service to these children behind vague, aggregated data that masked opportunity gaps from public view.
Yes, we should have limited state tests this year Read More »
