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On a late Thursday afternoon, 5th grade teacher Patrick Harris closes out his day planning lessons for the coming week and helping his students find their friends throughout the building. Rather than being disturbed by the occasional shouts from students during our conversation, he met them with a smile as he paused to reflect on […]

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Kendra Richardson is due this month.

As states begin to roll out their plans for school improvement under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the National Urban League is launching No Ceilings on Success, a campaign to hold states accountable through parental and community involvement. Derived from the concept of breaking glass ceilings, No Ceilings on Success builds on the work […]

Black girls who are proud of their racial identity perform better academically than those with low self-esteem about their blackness.

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Chance the Rapper and Google teamed up to donate $1.5 million toward science, technology, engineering and math studies at schools in Chicago.