Effective teachers can change and save lives, but being a great teacher is hard. The challenge is especially acute in our high-poverty, under-resourced public schools where teacher tenure is lowest. Black and brown students...
Tag - illiteracy
Talk to anyone who has made education equity their life’s work, and you will find, more often than not, that at the root of their drive and determination is a painful, formative experience in which they were confronted with...
There are many phrases used in education circles; the phrase reading is fundamental must be one of the most used. I used to scoff at the phrase as a child. Sadly, it wasn’t until college where I actually believed...
How can all students learn to read by 4th grade if so many teachers struggle with teaching reading? This piece first appeared in The Philadelphia Citizen, where Hilderbrand Pelzer III contributes regular columns during the school...