Today would have been Elijah McClain’s 25th birthday

It is a fact, not an opinion, that our standardized testing system discriminates against kids who learn differently. It also discriminates against poor kids. Black and brown kids as well. I need you all to understand the root causes of why. Take this journey with me.

147 mass shootings in US already this year: let's make it easier to buy guns 2 cases of voter fraud in 2020: let's make it harder to vote

seems pointless to argue about “critical race theory” as such when it’s not a part of any school curriculum to begin with. the whole debate is really about whether children should be learning history in school or national mythology

UtesBy5! 🇺🇦 🇺🇸🌈 Greg Abbott Texas: Where a virus has reproductive rights, but a woman doesn't.

Just finished my last semester of coursework in the teaching credential program! Next semester I’ll be student teaching 😊

Ethan Couch killed 4 people while driving drunk; his BAC was 0.24. He fled the country. He was only given 10 years probation, & then 720 days in jail for violating his probation. Rogel Aguilera-Mederos was sentenced 110 years for an accident killing 4 because his brakes failed.

If you're against gun reform, you're not pro-life.

These are elementary school children who woke up this morning. Who ate their favorite cereal. Who tied their shoes in double knots. Who laughed with friends on the bus. Now more than a dozen are dead. This isn’t normal. It doesn’t have to be this way. It can’t keep being this way

do not become desensitized. this shit is not normal.

Wait, so gun control laws aren’t going to help prevent shootings but laws against abortion are supposed to stop abortions?

Across the country, parents are putting their children to bed, reading stories, singing lullabies—and in the back of their minds, they’re worried about what might happen tomorrow after they drop their kids off at school, or take them to a grocery store or any other public space.

The moment that Greg Abbott said the Uvalde shooting “could have been worse” should be the end of his political career.

Our Sunday Review cover this week:

I refuse to have discussions about whether our classroom doors lock or whether they open in or out, single point entry or making sure we don't prop open doors. This is all a form of victim blaming that we should not participate in. Schools are not the problem. 1/2

Officially my last day of student teaching 🥹🙌🏼🥳

1/ Written in Arabic and recently acquired by the Library of Congress, "The Life of Omar Ibn Said” is not only a rare handwritten personal story of an American slave, but it's also one of the first intimate accounts of the early history of Muslims in the United States.