Esther J. Cepeda
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Chicago, IL, United States
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Cepeda: Immigrants are keeping America running
Millions of front-line health care workers are immigrants, from anesthesiologists - the doctors who insert breathing tubes to put ailing people on ventilators - to surgical and emergency room nurses, to paramedics and the physician assistants who rule out common colds. → Read More
Cepeda: Immigrants who are held in detention must be released immediately
Whatever you might imagine when talking about immigrants in detention, the truth is that most either have no criminal record or have already served time for any offenses they've committed while in our country. → Read More
Cepeda: Amid COVID-19, care for your spirit and wash hands
Just for a bit, every day, you have to laugh, you have to forget, you have to meditate or pray. → Read More
Cepeda: Coronavirus could spark a wave of empathy
My desperate hope is that coronavirus-related discomfort, inconvenience and suffering creates empathy for our fellow human beings. → Read More
Cepeda: English learners deserve equal treatment at school
There has also been an endemic indifference to the challenges of being an English language learner (ELL) by teaching staff. As a result, such programs are ghettos typified by underinvestment, administrative mismanagement and the framing of English learners as "problems," resulting in educational malpractice. → Read More
Commentary: Latino professionals are held to far different standards than white ones
Justice Sotomayor is sore over how the current Supreme Court has bowed to the Trump White House even in standard administrative matters with long-standing precedents. → Read More
Commentary: What happened to Black History Month?
But just think what Black History Month could be if it occurred in fairer weather and not in the shortest - and one of the dreariest and coldest - months of the year. → Read More
Commentary: Let kindergarteners play — so they won’t learn to hate school
For every group of students at an under-resourced school that finally gets laptops, there is a group of concerned parents at a high-performing school that opts out their kids from screen-fatiguing, web-based apps in the classroom. → Read More
Opinion: It’s going to take a lot more than Mr. and Mrs. Nice Guy to beat Trump
Which brings us to a potential Elizabeth Warren-Julián Castro ticket, now that Castro endorsed her for president. → Read More
Feast on some mind candy in 2020
A life consumed with reading, writing, battling anxiety and depression, taking care of dogs, cats, a spouse and a partner; houses that require cleaning, meals to cook and friends who shouldn't be ignored makes me like everyone else just trying to keep their head above water. So this year's advice is to simply add more enjoyment to your life. → Read More
Esther Cepeda: We have to learn to talk about racism if we want to stop it
A few weeks ago, I got into what became a heated argument with one of my young students, who was indignant that her teacher flat-out refused to share an important → Read More
Esther Cepeda: How white privilege derails dual-language programs
Dual-language programs have recently become more common in public schools. → Read More
Esther Cepeda: The 'normalization of hate' during the Trump era
In a 2016 blog post on the word "normalization," the Merriam-Webster dictionary website described how Donald Trump's candidacy made routine what used to be outlier behavior and language. → Read More
Esther Cepeda: The 'normalization of hate' during the Trump era
In a 2016 blog post on the word "normalization," the Merriam-Webster dictionary website described how Donald Trump's candidacy made routine what used to be outlier behavior and language. → Read More
Esther Cepeda: Democrats need to start courting Latinos now
It might seem obvious that the angst and fear President Trump has stirred up with his thinly veiled verbal assaults on people of color will translate into votes for a → Read More
Esther Cepeda: Democrats need to start courting Latinos now
It might seem obvious that the angst and fear President Trump has stirred up with his thinly veiled verbal assaults on people of color will translate into votes for a → Read More
Esther Cepeda: College shouldn't be the only path to success
All of the books by best-selling author Paul Tough have been meaningful to me. I'm a teacher, and there's nothing an educator loves more than books that offer up a → Read More
Esther Cepeda: College shouldn't be the only path to success
All of the books by best-selling author Paul Tough have been meaningful to me. I'm a teacher, and there's nothing an educator loves more than books that offer up a → Read More
Along with school supplies, teachers bring to their classrooms plenty of hope and courage
For some students, school is the only place that will offer two meals each weekday and the support of adults who are able to meet their academic and emotional needs with predictable routines. → Read More
Esther Cepeda: Teachers bring to their classrooms plenty of hope and courage
Contact paper. Plastic boxes for crayons. Damage-free picture hangers ... → Read More