Larry Strauss

A student asked for help writing to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to plead for her cousin who was detained in a raid. How do you appeal to ICE?

Teachers training to protect kids against ICE. College educators facing fears over academic freedom and DEI. For our students, we can't give up.

I began teaching amid a crisis ‒ crack epidemic, gang violence, civil unrest. Under Trump, my students, my colleagues and I are in crisis again.

If narrowing a child's education is a pillar of religious freedom, does that prevent teachers from telling LGBTQ+ students they need not be ashamed?

If you Google Teacher Appreciation Week, you'll discover endless gift ideas ‒ but teacher shortages suggest Starbucks gift cards aren't enough.

Elon Musk is a wake-up call for education leaders who have made us all vulnerable to DOGE attack. Ask teachers how to better spend education money

Hopefully, President-elect Trump won't try to use his power to renege on Biden's six-month commitment to California fire relief.

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.

You don’t have to read my books – you’ve made that unambiguously clear –or discuss them with someone who has read them. Just ban them.

It wasn’t difficult to help one student realize he had misinterpreted the data on COVID. The hard part, he told me, would be convincing his father.

It is my obligation to justify any curricular or pedagogical choice to any inquiring student or parent and to respectfully listen to any concerns.