Equity
Quote in Chalkbeat NY on How NYC Can Up Their Online Learning Game
Quote in Chalkbeat NY on How NYC Can Up Their Online Learning Game
This quote comes from a thoughtful conversation I had with Chalkbeat NY about the city’s rollout of online learning in…
228 Issues of Vogue Magazine. Can You Guess How Many Featured Women with Dark Skin? Look.
228 Issues of Vogue Magazine. Can You Guess How Many Featured Women with Dark Skin? Look.
What a fascinating example of data journalism by the folks over at The Pudding. Explore trends in skin color as…
Teachers Need to Watch this Video About Stress and Learning–For Themselves and For Their Students
Teachers Need to Watch this Video About Stress and Learning–For Themselves and For Their Students
This video about stress and the brain should be required viewing for all teachers. As you watch it, think about…
Oh Hell Yes. NYPL Resurrects the Mobile Library
Oh Hell Yes. NYPL Resurrects the Mobile Library
What literacy does for individuals and families cannot be overstated. To many in our communities, bringing the books to them…
Teach FM: What the College Admissions Scandal Teaches Us About Equity and Education
Teach FM: What the College Admissions Scandal Teaches Us About Equity and Education
In this week’s episode, I examine what the recent college admissions scandal reveals about equity and education more broadly in…
Language is Always Susceptible to Bias. That Includes Algorithms.
Language is Always Susceptible to Bias. That Includes Algorithms.
All this digital stuff is comprised of software. And software is comprised of languages. That means, just like human languages,…
How to Boost Test Scores Without Changing Standards, Curricula, or Tests
How to Boost Test Scores Without Changing Standards, Curricula, or Tests
Let’s make a bet. I bet we can see impressive increases in achievement scores without touching academics. I’m not saying…
Is Love the Key to Learning?
Is Love the Key to Learning?
Columnist David Brooks penned a commentary in which he argues that students’ emotional relationships with instructors are essential to their…
This Video Will Forever Change the Way You Think About the Achievement Gap
This Video Will Forever Change the Way You Think About the Achievement Gap
I have seldom followed an academic colleague doing such strong empirical research aimed at so precise and necessary an end.…
Tom’s Tirade in 3,2,1: Why This Teacher Should Cry and You Should Too
Tom’s Tirade in 3,2,1: Why This Teacher Should Cry and You Should Too
Oh, hell no. Scrolling through LinkedIn recently, I saw this video posted by a top Influencer (one of those on…
Reports of Child Abuse Go Up the Day After Report Cards Go Out
Reports of Child Abuse Go Up the Day After Report Cards Go Out
Let’s all take a moment and let this sink in: increases of child abuse can be correlated with the release…
What’s the Right Way to Teach Thanksgiving? Watch This and Decide for Yourself.
What’s the Right Way to Teach Thanksgiving? Watch This and Decide for Yourself.
This PBS report does a sound job in presenting the realities of trying to teach Thanksgiving in schools. Specifically, the…
Brave, Not Perfect: A Message to Girls Around the World
Brave, Not Perfect: A Message to Girls Around the World
You ever notice how young and quickly the color pink becomes associated with femininity? I have. If we are to…
I Can’t Put Down this Book on Why We Should Sue Schools into Teaching Civics Education. Seriously.
I Can’t Put Down this Book on Why We Should Sue Schools into Teaching Civics Education. Seriously.
If you’ve seen my States of Education map, you know the story: in the United States, education is mentioned nowhere…
Teaching is Trash. No, Really. It Is and That’s Wonderful. Watch this Guy!
Teaching is Trash. No, Really. It Is and That’s Wonderful. Watch this Guy!
Every teacher should start what they are doing right now and watch this Ted talk by Arvind Gupta. Gupta demonstrates how…
Read Factfulness and See How the World is Actually Getting Better and Better
Read Factfulness and See How the World is Actually Getting Better and Better
I love Hans Rosling’s data-driven talks about how the world is getting healthier and wealthier, slowly and steadily. When the…