The Progress-Index

Colonial Heights picks new school superintendent: Why the choice is a first for the city again

Colonial Heights School Board has appointed Travis Ridley as the new superintendent, making him the first Black person to hold the position. Ridley, a longtime educator in Colonial Heights, was ...
The Hill

Colonial-era schoolhouse used to educate Black children receives $5M grant

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is contributing $5 million toward the restoration of a The Bray School, a building used to educate Black children in Virginia during the 1700s. The schoolhouse is ...
The Conversation

National Day for Truth & Reconciliation: Universities and schools must acknowledge how colonial education has reproduced anti‑Indigenous racism

As we move towards Sept. 30, many schools and universities will be talking about observing the new National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Many schools formerly observed this day as Orange Shirt ...
The Conversation

Canada’s reckoning with colonialism and education must include Indian Day Schools

Sparked by the locating of hundreds of possible unmarked graves at former Indian Residential Schools across the country, there has been a public reckoning with the ongoing legacies of the residential ...