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Ta-Nahisi Coates on How Schools Hold Children Back
Ta-Nahisi Coates on How Schools Hold Children Back
In Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers this poignant passage about his experience with school as a child. For…
What if We Talk about College and CREATIVE Readiness Instead?
What if We Talk about College and CREATIVE Readiness Instead?
In the name of rigor and accountability, reforms that overemphasize career readiness and elaborate schemas of skill sets might actually…
The Best Video About Data You’ll Likely See Today
The Best Video About Data You’ll Likely See Today
The use of data in teaching and learning has increased dramatically over the last fifteen years. Driven in part by…
See if Your School District or University Has Been Investigated for Civil Rights Violations
See if Your School District or University Has Been Investigated for Civil Rights Violations
The United States Department of Education investigates claims of civil rights violations in K-12 and higher educational institutions. The data…
The Semicolon That Almost Destroyed Texas
The Semicolon That Almost Destroyed Texas
Like me, you probably don’t fully appreciate the importance of punctuation and grammar in making society function. Fortunately, Malcolm Gladwell’s…
One Piece of Advice for Any Teacher, Anywhere
One Piece of Advice for Any Teacher, Anywhere
I work with lots of teachers and I am in lots of schools. It occurred to me not so long…
You Can Geolocate Which Indigenous Peoples’ Land You Are Standing On Right Now.
You Can Geolocate Which Indigenous Peoples’ Land You Are Standing On Right Now.
One cannot change the past, but one can become more conscious of it. Eight years ago, I was invited to…
A Stunning Data Viz of Segregation in Chicago Public Schools
A Stunning Data Viz of Segregation in Chicago Public Schools
We often hear the word “achievement” used to describe the challenges in public education. That word tends to mask the…
Society and Schools Must Do More to Value the Intelligence of Everyday Workers
Society and Schools Must Do More to Value the Intelligence of Everyday Workers
Education professor Mike Rose describes just how wonderfully intelligent and creative everyday people are in their everyday work. He challenges the idea that…
What If the Crisis in Public Education Is Not What You Think?
What If the Crisis in Public Education Is Not What You Think?
Over the past month, teachers in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado, and North Carolina led mass protests, accusing state…
Coates: Some Words Don’t Belong to Everyone
Coates: Some Words Don’t Belong to Everyone
Asked at a book talk by a white college student if she and her friends have the right to use…
Stop Teaching Computer Science. Start “Embedding” It.
Stop Teaching Computer Science. Start “Embedding” It.
I’ve said it before: if we are serious about teaching computer science in K-12 schools, we have to reimagine how…
Watch How President Reagan Introduced A Nation at Risk
Watch How President Reagan Introduced A Nation at Risk
You have probably heard of A Nation at Risk–the Reagan-era report from which today’s education reforms come–but have you ever…
How Women Took Over Education Administration
How Women Took Over Education Administration
All I’m going to say is the Nation at Risk report was published in 1983, triggering decades of aggressive reforms…
NYC Mayor’s Remark Reveals How School Segregation Works Today
NYC Mayor’s Remark Reveals How School Segregation Works Today
When the mayor recently said that school segregation was directly linked to housing segregation, commentators pointed to the city’s own…
What Makes Teacher Professional Development Effective
What Makes Teacher Professional Development Effective
Check out this fantastic resource for school leaders and teacher educators. The Learning Policy Institute, Stanford professor Linda Darling-Hammond’s second…