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Dec 23, 2024 | 
the74million.org | Conor Williams
Education is at a Crossroads: Help Us Illuminate the Path Forward. Donate to The 74 When you’re raising a child, you’re conducting a project balanced on the tension between the world that you inhabit and a better, as-yet imagined world. That tension is personal: parents and caregivers come to the job with the hang-ups we’ve amassed since childhood. We’re famously prone to imposing some version of those onto our own kids — however hard we try to free them.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
the74million.org | Conor Williams
Education is at a Crossroads: Help Us Illuminate the Path Forward. Donate to The 74 Early in my career — when the world was still young and the nihilistic carnival wing of our politics seemed safely marginalized, I was a periodic columnist for Talking Points Memo. Nearly 10 years ago, I wrote what seemed like a pretty decent prediction: It’s increasingly clear that universal pre-K is coming. It probably won’t arrive in 2015. It might not be for a few more years.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Casey Stockstill |Halley Potter |Jonathan Zabala |Conor Williams
This report is part of a research project in partnership with the Trust for Learning highlighting how early childhood programs can blend and braid funding to serve diverse groups of children.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Halley Potter |Casey Stockstill |Conor Williams |Jonathan Zabala
This profile is part of a research project in partnership with the Trust for Learning highlighting how early childhood programs can blend and braid funding to serve diverse groups of children.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Conor Williams |Maggie Marcus |Rosybell Maria
Meet Annie Connor. First thing in the morning, Ms. Annie co-teaches an Algebra class of both English learners (ELs) and non-ELs, all dressed in pajamas for the school’s Spirit Week. Heads are down completing the bell ringer on the board when Ms. Annie interrupts the silence to begin vocal exercises.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Jonathan Zabala |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Conor Williams |Chantal Hinds
Imagine stepping into a new school where everything feels unfamiliar—new language, new faces, new rules. For many newcomer students—immigrants or refugees in their first few years of U.S. schools—this is their daily reality. This transition can be overwhelming and isolating, often leading to feelings of anxiety, loneliness, and academic struggles. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With the right support and resources, newcomer students can thrive in their new environment.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Katie Byrnes |Maggie Marcus |Jasmine Brann |Conor Williams
In 2016, as a second-year PhD student, I attended a lecture by Katie Byrnes, who spoke of the importance of Mindful Educator Self-Care, and described tools for educators to practice, like focused attention, that will help them to be aware of one’s body and mental state. Years later—as a professor training teachers during the COVID-19 global pandemic—I incorporated yoga and breathing exercises into my lectures by inviting guest practitioners to lead us through guided practices.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Stefan Lallinger |Jonathan Zabala |Conor Williams |Alejandra Vazquez Baur
This spring marked the seventieth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. For all of its shortcomings and still unfulfilled promises, Brown set off a wave of school desegregation and civil rights legislation and continues to serve as a cornerstone for educational equity.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
the74million.org | Conor Williams
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter California is, by almost every measure, one of the United States’ most diverse and vibrant states. The country’s most populous state, it also has no majority racial or ethnic group. The combination of public investments in the University of California system and the state’s welcoming approach to immigration have created a dynamic, technology-infused economy that is the largest of any U.S. state.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Conor Williams
Conor P. WilliamsAugust 5, 2024 at 6:30 AM·5 min readIn an era when partisan echo chambers have produced polarized public discourse and a politically aligned unwillingness to entertain inconvenient facts, clear investigative journalism is among the highest forms of public service. It’s also increasingly rare, with many media outlets struggling to find their footing in an era of financial, political and technological instability.
