Reinventing Schools That Keep Teachers in Teaching
It’s time to consider how to create schools that are themselves centers for the continual learning of everyone involved
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Tellin’ Stories, Finding Common Ground
A Washington, D.C., school shows the promise of how parent organizing contributes to equity-driven urban school reform
Six, Going on Sixteen
Fighting “age compression” and the “commercialization of childhood”
10 Ways to Move Beyond Bully-Prevention (and Why We Should)
Thinking critically about bully-prevention programs
Dignity and a Haircut
A review of the film American Pastime and baseball under mass incarceration
Teaching Objection
How textbooks distort and lie about conscientious objection to World War II.
My Talk With the Principal
Thoughts on putting up walls — and tearing them down.
Afghanistan’s Ghosts
Teaching The Kite Runner and the ‘good war’.
They Call This Data?
Oscar Wilde, Svab and my students.
Move Over, Sisyphus
Get students passionate about writing and the grammar will follow
Remembering Mahmoud Darwish
The Palestinian poet’s richly descriptive style resonated with displaced peoples everywhere
The Prison Cell
Poem by Mahmoud Darwish
A Test Scorer’s Lament
Scenes from the mad, mad, mad world of testing companies
Teaching’s Revolving Door
New teachers leave the profession at an alarming rate —and there’s no single reason or easy solutions
Decolonizing the Classroom: Lessons in Multicultural Education
Multicultural education has to be based on dialogue—both among students and between students and teachers
Children As Guinea Pigs
Washington, D.C., bribes its students to perform
We Still Aren’t In a Post-Racial Society
Barack Obama’s election isn’t the end of racism
Hunger, Academic Success, and the Hard Bigotry of Indifference
Food insecurity and hunger are a serious threat to children’s lives
Documenting the Undocumented
When immigrant students count —and when they don’t
College for All?
Low-income students take the college admissions process into their own hands
The Square Root of a Fair Share
Lessons on school desks and dream homes
Introduction: Teacher Quality
No matter where we fall on the political spectrum, one point of agreement is that children deserve quality teachers. What becomes more contentious is how society defines “quality” teachers and […]
Rethinking MySpace
As an educator constantly searching for ways to use popular culture in my classroom
Childhood Is Dying
Iraq’s children have been more gravely affected by the U.S. occupation than any other segment of the population.”
Empire or Humanity?
The American Empire has always been a bipartisan project—Democrats and Republicans have taken turns extending it