Closure is a safe word. We think of closure and we think of putting trauma and violence into a box, sealing it up tight, filing...
Gerda Weissmann Klein is an author, advocate, and motivational speaker. She has written biographies, children's books, and television scripts. She fights relentlessly for disability rights,...
For this blog in honor of National Genocide Memorial Day in Rwanda, which marks the anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide on April...
The current problems facing our society seem to be growing more overwhelming by the day. It can feel impossible to affect change when our oppressive...
While reading, I came to this sudden realization that sometimes when I’m overworking and exhausting myself in my job or in my activism, it’s because...
Although most of the country celebrates New Year’s on , the New Year for educators rolls around in early August, when teachers, administrators, counselors, and...
It was my birthday this weekend: August 9th, 2014. I got lots of messages and texts and voicemails from friends and acquaintances telling me how...
In recent news, there has been a barrage of videos, letters, and articles from educators around the country – explaining in no uncertain terms why...
Last Wednesday, my 7th graders took their Reading STAAR: sitting in silent rows for 4 hours, bubbling in their scantrons, going to the bathroom one...
Michelle Rhee is as controversial as ever when it comes to education. Supporters insist she makes tough decisions for schools and puts “students first.” Detractors...
Since Teach for America has been so successful at solving the problems of education in our country, I’m proposing we take their model and apply...
I’m angry because, after a weekend of careful planning, after differentiating an assignment for students who have mastered skills at different levels, after catching up...
Just finished watching Jon Stewart’s interview with Michelle Rhee. She mostly focused on specific policies she highlights in her new book — teacher evaluation, “accountability,”...
Recently, I attend a meeting of the Austin Social Justice Teachers Inquiry Group, during which we talked about… politics. A scary word in a school....
Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed has been on my book list for years, and I finally got around to reading it a few weeks...
Well, it’s about that time of year — when seniors start frantically applying for fellowships and internships and jobs, the socially conscious among them aching...
