The presence of Black male educators in the classroom benefits everyone. For Black students, it means seeing yourself in a position of power and leadership. For other students, it means...

If education were to be the great equalizer, than it must diminish inequities in power and privilege that exist atop 400 years of racist policy and class separation. If that’s...

Recently, an Olathe North teacher was fired for using the n-word at a school function. While it was an acute incident which led to the teacher’s termination, one acquaintance of...

Be anti-anti-CRT; in other words, teach truth. The history of the United States is the history of racism. It’s the history of the constant evolution of a constructed idea of...

Lucas Vincent and Stephanie Alderman-Oler talk about the challenges students face when juggling homework, grades, and involvement in all sorts of extra-curricular activities. This bonus episode extends the conversation from...

Magnet schools are most well-known as a half-hearted remedy to the foibles of post-Brown integration. The concept is still alive, however, in the form of specialty programs that allow students...

While teaching has long been a profession fraught with burnout and laden with stress, COVID 19 made it worse: heaping onto the camel’s back the need for teacher’s to become...

In episode 3 of season 2 of Wide Ruled, Alex Ochoa shares his journey to $0 in college debt. His decision to go debt free was one of guts, persistence,...

Brian Dolezal is Assistant Principal at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas. He was about to go on vacation in spring break of 2020 when things hit the fan. A...

David Muhammad is an educator, sensei and rapper. In this episode of Wide Ruled, Nathaniel and David talk about school demographics, how planning and resources led to differential school reactions...