Jerald McNair

As school leaders prepare for the upcoming school year, I am certain many of them have heavy hearts similar to mine that are filled with emotion and uncertainty. Mass shootings...

How do we respond if a child wants to know what the recently passed federal gun reform legislation means? What do parents, educators and other adults say when a child...

What is the difference between writing and texting? If you were to pose that question to youths from Generation Alpha — born starting in 2010 — many of them may...

I remember the days when the only thing students worried about in school was getting good grades, and when there was a healthy supply of candidates wanting to become teachers....

As an educator, I have talked to far too many students who have lived less than 30 miles from downtown Chicago but have never visited. I've asked myself: Do they...

When I was young, I couldn't wait for the grass to grow so I could take my lawn mower out and cut some of my neighbors' yards. The days it...

This is the first time members of Generation Z are seeing what war really looks like. They are the demographic cohort ranging in age from 10 to 25. Thanks to...

We face an educational reckoning if steps are not taken to address the teacher shortage in the United States. But how can we attract teachers when education has become so...

While I was talking to a group of young people about their future, I asked them: What do you want to be when you grow up? I was somewhat taken...