Shorter Writings
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Creating a Mindset for Writing
How do we teach our least confident students to write? Convince them that they can—and give them a map.
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A Handy Strategy for Teaching Theme
Analyzing the themes in a literary work can be tricky for students, but a simple formula can scaffold the process.
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There’s a Difference Between a ‘Good’ School and Choosing Whiteness and Wealth
THAT WHOLE IDEA OF A “GOOD” SCHOOL CAN OFTENTIMES SIMPLY BE CODE FOR A SCHOOL THAT SERVES A RICH, WHITE COMMUNITY
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It Doesn’t Just Happen at Starbucks. Teachers Need Racial Bias Training Too.
The question is not what is Starbucks doing to learn from this incident, but what about the rest of us? Are we ready to do the work necessary to dismantle our deeply entrenched biases?
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Prioritizing Whiteness Over Democracy
The juxtaposition of these two realities, white families crusading against culturally responsive anti-racist education while HBCUs face death threats, highlights what truly lies behind the raucous school board meetings; the prioritization and defense of Whiteness at the expense of American democracy.
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A broken education system requires more than one-off investments from billion-dollar institutions
When universities like Drexel and Penn cherry-pick the communities that they want to invest in, gentrification follows, and low-income families lose out.
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Here’s How We Turn Our Teacher Crisis Into an Education Moonshot
America has lost more than 500,000 teachers since the beginning of the pandemic and teacher vacancies remain unfilled. But, what if instead of a crisis, we look at this moment as an opportunity?
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We Send Our Kids to School Knowing There’s a Chance They’ll Be Murdered in Their Classrooms
I was lying on the floor in the hallway scrolling through my phone waiting for my youngest child to fall asleep when I saw that there had been another school shooting, this time in a high school in Michigan.
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The Gifted and Talented Debates Aren’t About Rigor, They’re About Access
An interesting, complicated, and rather polarizing trend is going around in American education, and it has to do with special admission schools and the designation of “gifted and talented.
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Current Events Put Racism on Display, No Matter How Hard Some Try to Hide It
In the words of Mugatu, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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Almost Two Years Into the Pandemic and We Still Haven’t Gotten to the Heart of Our Broken School System
So long as schools are funded by ZIP code, so long as students of color face a school-to-prison pipeline, and so long as the least prepared and least experienced teachers are funneled into under-resourced schools, the work continues, so why should I expect hope to blossom each and every day?
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Blue Ribbon winners are a reminder of how Philly-area schools remain segregated
Education in America is a commodity purchased in the marketplace of tuition and real estate with high quality schools accessed by those who can afford them.
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LET CHILDREN LEARN
Comcast has stepped in to bridge America’s digital divide during the Covid-19 pandemic. A local educator urges the FCC to make all cable companies do the same so all children can learn virtually.
