Larry Strauss

The mass deportations Trump promised, which many of his followers celebrated, were a pledge to take away the parents and grandparents of my students.

My disabled brother’s life would have been so much better if he had been born decades later. Like my autistic students who just graduated.

Judge Juan Merchan set closing arguments in Donald Trump's trial for Tuesday, with jury deliberations to follow. Jurors, thank you for stepping up.

Conservative economists have long warned against raising the minimum wage. California just proved that ‘greed works,’ as Gordon Gekko said.

Here comes another standardized testing season with all the administrator anxiety, teacher turmoil and student disaffection. Why continue this mess?

Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis once convicted standardized test cheating ring. What’s criminal is prioritizing test scores.

Too many see homelessness as threats to property values and tourism, and as potential crime, rather than as America’s economic and social failure.

The school at which I teach has become a school of choice, an alternative to inferior and sometimes perilous inner-city neighborhood high schools.

If I have a complaint against progressive prosecutors, it is that they haven’t acted quickly enough to end the justice system’s abuses.

Most of my students said prohibitions on teaching the truth hurt and depressed them more than learning about the brutalities of the past.