Don’t Stay Silent
WHEN WE STAND ALONE, WE FALL. WHEN WE STAND TOGETHER, WE RISE. It’s been a while since I’ve posted a Music Moment. This was a pretty powerful statement.
Category Archives: Education
Losing Tolerance for Zero Tolerance
BREAKING DOWN THE ZERO TOLERANCE SCAM Many years ago I found myself in a conflict with my principal when I advocated for one of my students in the face of the […]
Testing Season
HOW PUNITIVE HIGH STAKES TESTING DUMBS DOWN THE CLASSROOM An edited version of the following essay appeared in the Fort Myers News Press. It’s mid-April, so let the testing season […]
Democracy Discriminates Against the Young
Originally posted on Benjamin Studebaker:
Young people overwhelmingly support Bernie Sanders in this election, but many of them are not showing up. He crushed the demographic in Massachusetts, but still lost…
Jim Crow 2.0
OUR CHILDREN ARE GROWING UP IN A NEW AGE OF SEGREGATION I like to use an educational technique that I call The Serendipitous Curriculum. I’ve been ribbed about it by […]
