Education

Solution: 5–16 Continuum™: Opening a New Learning Organization in the Twin Cities

The plan now is to initiate a community school grounded in learning, family engagement, and powerful outcomes. The origin of Rondo Academy: School of Communication Arts and Literature (RASCAL)....

New records reveal another Minneapolis Public Schools’ accounting error — $4.1 million

Troubled finance department struggling amid high turnover, bad tech By Melissa Whitler, Minnesota Reformer Minneapolis Public Schools lost out on...

Report: 54 Years of American Indian Education in Minneapolis Public Schools: Where Are the Results?

After 54 years, why should Minnesota American Indian families believe Minneapolis Public Schools leadership when it says, once...

Opinion: What the Minnesota State Fair Reveals About Race, Safety, and Belonging

Public safety begins long before a teenager reaches the State Fair gates. The Minnesota State Fair doesn’t create...

A Long Overdue Shift: Why NorthStar’s Rebrand and Business Focus is Exactly What North Minneapolis Needs

As KIPP Minnesota transitions to NorthStar Public Schools, a new K-8 focus on business and financial literacy aims...

Invisible Equity

Schools have mastered the language of equity without ever having to define or practice what it really means inside a school site, district, or...

“We Have Decided to Move Forward with Another Candidate” in Educational Hiring

The greatest casualty is not the rejected applicant but the student sitting in a classroom, waiting for adults to stop congratulating themselves on inclusive...

South Carolina is allowing teachers to give zeros again, but the problem with grading goes deeper

By Laura Link, The Conversation The grades that students receive in high school and college can decide their futures. High school grades shape students’ overall...

Assumptions of Acting White in Black-Led Professional Leadership Settings

This essay enters that uncomfortable space. It examines how accusations of “Acting White” and being a “sell-out” can constrain Black leadership, distort professional decision-making,...

2030: When we realized the Minnesota READ Act failed

A FutureCast Editorial: What Minnesota truly needed was to repair the system surrounding the reader. You decide, fiction or non-fiction? It is the year 2030. Eight years...

Where Is Minnesota’s Office of Black American Education?

For years, Minnesota's Black education leaders have gathered in conference rooms, school board meetings, professional development sessions, equity summits, community forums, listening sessions, strategic...

The Theory of Corners: A Diagnostic System for High-Functioning, Low-Outcome Learning Organizations

On May 27, 2026, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation titled: What Leadership and Operational Strategies Should Twin Cities Black-led Charter Schools Have to...

MDE’s Credits Without Competence: The Dangerous Illusion Behind Learner-Centered Reform

A friend of mine attended an informational session at the Minnesota Department of Education to review the Minnesota Department of Education’s newest masterpiece, the...

If Literacy Is the Priority, Why Are So Many 4th Graders Still Not Reading at Grade Level?

Every operating system is designed with a clear roadmap. Engineers anticipate upgrades, address vulnerabilities, and retire obsolete systems. In contrast, education persists within structures...

The Bell Rings, Our Children Move, and Nobody Asks If They Learned Anything

For decades, families in Black, Brown, immigrant, and historically underserved communities have been told to wait for traditional educational systems to improve. Many are...

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