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The Constant Testing of Black Brilliance

Itoro Udofia

An educator reflects on how the education system has continually tested her Blackness from grade school through professional development, and argues that we need more Black spaces to nurture brilliance.

#MeToo and The Color Purple

Linda Christensen

During a recent conversation, a former high school classmate said, “I always wondered why you left Eureka. I heard that something shameful happened, but I never knew what it was.”

Yes, something shameful happened. My former husband beat me in front of the Catholic Church in downtown Eureka. He tore hunks of hair from my scalp, broke my nose, and battered my body. It wasn’t the first time during the nine months of our marriage. When he fell into a drunken sleep, I found the keys he used to keep me locked inside and I fled, wearing a bikini and a bloodied white fisherman’s sweater. For those nine months I had lived in fear of his hands, of drives into the country where he might kill me and bury my body. I lived in fear that if I fled, he might harm my mother or my sister.

I carried that fear and shame around for years. Because even though I left the marriage and the abuse, people said things like “I’d never let some man beat me.” There was no way to tell them the whole story: How growing up and “getting a man” was the goal, how making a marriage work was my responsibility, how failure was a stigma I couldn’t bear.

We Don’t Need No Education

Now Arizona Says Teachers Don’t Require College Degrees

Kathryn Joyce

As an example of how the right is waging war on teacher education programs, teacher unions, and the teaching profession itself, Arizona has rolled back teacher licensing rules. We could see similar measures proposed in other parts of the country.

From Snarling Dogs to Bloody Sundays

Teaching Past the Platitudes of the Civil Rights Movement

Kate Lyman

An elementary school teacher describes how she tries to teach past the platitudes of the Civil Rights Movement.

Teaching in Dystopia

Wayne Au

The problem is this: Testing is killing education. Not only is it narrowing the curriculum generally

Push Out: Racial Dynamics at a Turnaround School

Christopher B. Knaus

A teacher educator is hired as a mentor by a turnaround school’s new principal. He soon realizes he is being asked to cover for getting rid of an excellent teacher of color.

A Revitalized Teacher Union Movement

Bob Peterson

The president of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association describes paths and pitfalls in moving beyond bread and butter issues to social justice unionism.

Coming Home to Ourselves

Cierra Kaler-Jones

In her new book, The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)member, Cynthia Dillard (now dean of the College of Education at Seattle University) provides language for what occurs when Black women teachers discover their spiritual wisdom and identities that are part of a long historical continuum of Black women’s resistance, creativity, and ultimately, their healing.

Independence or Catastrophe?

Teaching Palestine through multiple perspectives

Samia Shoman

A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine/Israel, focusing on the events of 1948.

Resisting the High School Canon

Bakari Chavanu

Despite an abundance of engaging Black literature, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” remain high school students’ primary introduction to issues of race and racial oppression.”

Learning to Become a Community

Cooperative Activities in Inclusive Classrooms

Mara Sapon-Shevin

Four children are gathered on the floor doing a cooperative learning lesson on animal habitats. The children’s task is to sort a set of picture cards into appropriate habitats and […]

Revising the Classroom

When I was in high school, my senior English teacher told me, “You’re just a big fish in a small pond now. Wait until you get to college. Then you’ll […]

Essay Unbound

Opening the Canon of Literary Analysis

Linda Christensen

Christensen argues that the tight reliance on the format of the literary analysis hinders students’ imaginations, and that they should instead write “unbound” essays of risk-taking and experimentation.

Why Top-Down Structures and Excellent Teaching Don’t Mix

Carnegie Offers a Hopeful Alternative

Deborah Meier

“A Nation Prepared” the report of the Carnegie Corporation on teaching as a profession, speaks very strongly to many of the issues school people are concerned about today. It is […]

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