What is the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021? You may have heard it as the “second big COVID stimulus,” but the actual name is
A year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down U.S. schools. A year into the pandemic, 12 million students still lack adequate broadband access at home. The Federal
This is a op-ed by Andrew Pillow, a fifth-grade social studies teacher at a KIPP public charter school in Indianapolis, where he has taught for
Yesterday at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s inauguration, Amanda Gorman stole the show. Lady Gaga? J-Lo? Garth Brooks? No contest. This twenty-two-year-old
This is a post by Gregory Wickham, a New York City student. He is the son of best-selling writer Alina Adams, who manages brightbeam’s blog, New York School
Tanesha Peeples is the Deputy Director for Activist Development at brightbeam. This post forst appeared on Education Post, one of brightbeam’s national blogs.. Y’all know
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned last night, citing Wednesday’s putsch at the Capitol, Trump’s incitement of violence, and her concern that “impressionable children are watching all
Five years ago TikTok, the video-sharing social networking platform, didn’t even exist. Today, the New York Times reports that over one-third of its 49 million daily users
This post is by my brightbeam colleague Garris Landon Stroud, a teacher from Greenville, Kentucky who runs the Kentucky School Talk blog. He is a published author
“More than ever, it is abundantly clear there is a need for real-time data on where our children stand academically.” – M. Teresa Ruiz, NJ