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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. As a New York mom of two kids who attend public schools, the past 12 months of remote schooling has been anything but smooth. Whether I’m procuring a picture book for my 7-year-old so he'll better understand Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy or explaining how to group polynomial algebraic expressions to my 9th grader for his online math homework, I'm doing a tricky balancing act. “You have no idea how to do algebra,” he said to me, with his teenage sneer, on more than one occasion. Guilty as charged.

Education Will Be Critical in the Fight for Democracy and Anti-Racism California State University, Fullerton students and allies protest the police-perpetrated killing of George Floyd at City Hall in Fullerton, California, on June 7, 2020. Leonard Ortiz / MediaNews Group / Orange County Register via Getty Images By What is the role of education in creating a critically-minded public that is unafraid to resist lies and deceptions perpetuated by anti-democratic forces? How do we best address the assumption that economically oppressed children can’t learn? In what way does internalized racis...