#education

A blog about pushing past the status quo in how we school our youth. Honest, data-backed, stakeholder-driven, and relentlessly committed to kids.

Michelle Olmedo and David Sinclair

Kathy Taylor on discrimination, educational inequality, and what inspires her to keep pushing for a

SPIRE Journalism Fellows and 9th grade Will Rogers High School students, David Sinclair and Michelle Olmedo, had the opportunity to...

Brooke Myers, Founder

What happens when kids age out of birth-to-eight initiatives?

Rightfully, community leaders and educators around the country have turned their focus and dollars to programs that support early...

Brooke Myers, Founder

The simple trick to getting kids to do anything.

I can’t lie. I was nervous about having 11 days to coach 10 kids into creating a book full of professional-grade photographs and an...

Austin Stember

Four simple things YOU can do each month to pave the road to college for kids

There’s a growing divide in the United States. Not the one between political parties, though this seems to garner most of our attention...

Austin Stember

Three ways the education system is failing our kids and what we need to do about it

Americans have a belief in our education system as a place of egalitarianism. It may be the single point within our lives where our...