Garris Stroud is an award-winning educator and writer from Greenville, Kentucky whose advocacy and scholarship have been recognized by USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, Education Post, The Louisville Courier-Journal, and The Lexington Herald-Leader. He served as a Hope Street Group Kentucky State Teacher Fellow from 2017-2019 and became chair of the organization’s editorial board in 2018. Stroud is currently a doctoral student in educational leadership at the University of the Cumberlands, located in the heart of Kentucky’s Appalachian region. Contact him via email at [email protected].
Public schools are often tasked with being all things for all people. For most of us, we think of schools as centers for learning. But for some, especially those of us in smaller communities,...
If I had a nickel for every time a school official uttered the phrase "unprecedented times" in the past year and a half, our schools wouldn't need the American Rescue Plan. But you know...
School choice and rural communities are a lot like oil and water: historically, they haven’t mixed. Efforts to expand educational options for families have instead been more focused on America’s cities, where access to...
Teacher burnout is no joke. We routinely hear stories about the intensity of a teacher’s work day, and thanks to the pandemic, things are only getting harder. Last year, it was remote learning, hybrid...
Five more states are distancing themselves from the National School Boards Association (NSBA). Last week, the state board associations of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Louisiana agreed to end their affiliations with the NSBA...
"Kids today are too fragile. We're raising a generation of snowflakes!"
It's a universal truth: As long as there are young people, there will be older people who complain about them. Today's generation of...
Kentucky is now one of the latest states to distance itself from the National School Boards Association (NSBA).
In September, the NSBA sent a letter to President Biden requesting federal intervention in school board incidents,...
Reading about new rural teacher recruitment initiatives is like watching a sitcom romance unfold. I want to hope for the best, but I know better.
The latest display of this comes from a new initiative...