In March, schools across the nation closed in the face of the threat of the spread of COVID-19. With little to no training and even fewer resources, teachers like me shifted our classrooms from a physical space to a digital one. This past spring, my days were spent at my […]
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W.Va. Teacher: We Went on Strike to Fight Retaliation, Not Reform
My great-grandfather was a coal miner. He dropped out of school to mine coal at age 14, and he supported his family with his wages from the mines and what he could grow on the small farm I would one day grow up on. And while he never regretted his […]
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