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Reading Time: 4 minutesThis story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here. Dontrell* came to me early in my microschool journey.

Reading Time: 6 minutesIt became a routine as familiar as going to lunch or picking up a child after school. Each day started with students logging online and

Reading Time: 3 minutesAcademia is a high-stress, high-surveillance environment. Faculty are asked to do more with less: more students, more reporting, more unpaid labor — and less time,

Reading Time: 6 minutesLately, Angela Reyes’ oldest daughter talks her ear off. “Sometimes I’m like, ‘I need you to quiet down!’” Reyes laughed. But when the now-12-year-old was

Reading Time: 6 minutesThis story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here. Growing up as a sci-fi geek, the promise of

Reading Time: 6 minutesTwo decades ago, Texas made history as the first state to grant in-state tuition to undocumented students. Now, it has taken that opportunity away —

Reading Time: 10 minutesDaniel Montgomery’s love of books started as a youngster with weekly visits to the public library, which fittingly led him to a nearly two-decade career

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe enrollment cliff has long loomed in the minds of higher education leaders anticipating that a sharp decline in the number of incoming students starting

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here. Consider the scene: I am an English teacher in

Reading Time: 3 minutesSchool counselors Stephanie Nelson and Richard Tench, while hundreds of miles apart, give their rising seniors the same assignment when asked for a letter of

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here. At Guilford Preparatory Academy, a K-8, Title 1 public

Reading Time: 3 minutesEven before Donald Trump moved into his second term as president, experts and advocates predicted a drop in school attendance by students from immigrant families,