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Cash-strapped teachers turn to Facebook, online sites to equip their classrooms

Read on Chalkbeat TN here. When teacher Shemena Shivers walked into her Melrose High School science lab for the first time, she couldn’t...

Memphis colleges are training more teachers of color, new study shows

Read on Chalkbeat TN here. Teaching degree programs at four-year institutions nationwide are disproportionately white, according to new...

With Man Up, a new Memphis teacher prep program is training, mentoring men of color

Read on Chalkbeat TN here. Patrick Washington has teaching in his blood. Washington’s great-great-grandfather, Richard Adkins, was born a...

What would these students tell newly-trained teachers? 'Be woke'

Read on Chalkbeat TN here. Respect for others, being resourceful, and confronting biases are among the lessons four high-school-age...

Roy Moore Drowns Us Out

Read on The New York Times here. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — At every home game at the University of Alabama, where I am a sophomore, the...

International students discuss barriers to inclusive campus community

It was a Monday night, and Sakina Dhondia had a test the next day, but she and her friends didn’t come to the third floor of the Ferguson...

ELI takes hits when international enrollment drops

Frannie James said she’d be terrified if she were still a full-time English as a Second Language instructor. “If I lost my job at The...

Autherine Lucy Foster's legacy honored with historical marker

Autherine Lucy Foster ended her third day of school in the annex of Graves Hall, where she was holed up for two hours before being...

THE TEAM: Four years of trials and triumphs

THE GAME Shamarkus Kennedy fouled out. Ross Hardin fouled out. Marquise Foster fouled out. “It was me and Kalex in the game, and Chris,...

FLAWLESS: Remembering the life and legacy of Ariel Backstrom

For my dance partner, riding buddy, and best friend. Placing this here so we always remember. For any old day, it would be difficult for...

IN HER SHOES: What it's like to be alone, in the dark, and a girl

Trina Busby, English teacher, did not approve of the joking signs some of her senior students were making, referring to their rivals’...

ADAM & MARGIE: Two students' lives cut short by empty bottles, revv of engines

With a half-empty bottle of Pinnacle beer and car keys in hand, a sophomore left the party scene and made an intoxicated journey back...