Education Week likes to frustrate me in the morning. Reading their article today about the retreat of the anti-testing suburban opt-out movement, I should have been happy, but a few word-bytes in it are restating flimsy...
Tag - standards
By last December, the fall of my ninth year of teaching high school, I had been observed by teacher coaches, visitors from educational non-profit organizations, principals and assistant principals, no fewer than 15 times. Each...
Last month, my friend, Erika Sanzi, wrote a piece on her blog Good School Hunting. She raises several great points. I’ve re-posted it below. Some kids are uncomfortable with reading To Kill a Mockingbird down in Biloxi...
One of the single most infuriating liberties in which white privilege manifests itself is attempting to define other people’s heroes. The 2nd principle of Kwanzaa calls on us to apply Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) to our...
“I am accountable for how much Black kids learn?!” I was recently asked what it would take to accelerate the achievement levels of Black students. This is a question that people have claimed to have been grappling...