Announcing The Blue Tide’s new January 6th single: “Right Time (To Sing the Blues)”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvFE9jv1_Io Announcing The Blue Tide's new single: Right Time (To Sing the Blues)I am excited to announce that today the band I started with my lifelong friend Daniel Rapport--The Blue Tide--is releasing our new single, "Right Time (To Sing the Blues)." The song is part of our Plague Blues album that will drop in early 2022 …

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Our Opt-Out Letter: “These standardized tests can’t measure our son”

This is the opt-out letter we wrote for our son. I sent it to the principal of my son's middle school asking that he be dismissed from the Smarter Balanced test, explaining our reasoning, and attempting to build common cause in a struggle for a larger purpose for education. While this letter is deeply personal to me and describes a lot of the very specific reasons why my son won't be taking these tests, I encourage you to meditate on your own children's beautiful qualities and then write your own opt-out letter to your school principal.

Young People Take Center Court in ‘The Kaepernick Effect’

Dave Zirin’s extraordinary new book is devoted to telling how student athletes across the country joined a historic social movement for Black lives.

Meet Mia Dabney, Aneesa Roidad, & KyRi Miller–2021 “Black Education Matters Student Activist Award” Winners!

KyRi Miller, Aneesa Roidad, and Mia Dabney are the 2021 Black Education Matters Student Activist Award winners--find out how they are changing the world!

“I’m not alone in pledging to #TeachTruth”: Jesse Hagopian’s speech from June 12 National Day of Action opposing the banning of teaching about structural racism & oppression.

Jesse Hagopian delivers a speech at the Seattle #TeachTruth rally on June 12, 2021. Photo by Maile Anderson, posted with permission. A great movement is gaining strength to refuse to lie to kids. On January 12th, 2021, hundreds of teachers in over 40 different cities and towns joined a national day of action to #TeachTruth …

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