High School Students Excel in National Science Competition
The mainstream media loves to write negative stories about public schools. Here is a story featured in local news but mostly ignored by the national...
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“I Am a New York City Public High School Student. The Situation Is Beyond Control.”
This statement by a student was published anonymously at Reddit. He wanted to explain what is happening in his school in regards to COVID. The...
Los Angeles Times: The “Unentitled Kids”: California’s New Generation of College-Bound Stars
Teresa Watanabe wrote a wonderful story about kids in a public school in Los Angeles who are college-bound, despite their demographic profiles. They don’t have...
Jan Resseger: A New Book with Mike Rose’s Last Essay about Public Schools
Jan Resseger received an early copy of a new book edited by David Berliner and Carl Hermanns (I contributed one of the essays), and she...
Civil Rights Groups, Unions Form Coalition to Urge Federal Funding for Community Schools
If you don’t know the work of Jitu Brown, this is a good time to inform yourself. Jitu Brown has worked for many years as...
An Important New Book About New Orleans and Its Schools
Three scholars have recently published a very informative book about the history of education in New Orleans. The authors tell this story by scrutinizing one...
Children and Guns: One More American Tragedy
I thought you might want to read this. It’s a sobering story. There are about 300 million guns in the U.S. This story appeared in...
Nancy Bailey: Why I Write About Students and Public Schools
Nancy Bailey is a retired teacher and a terrific blogger. She and I co-authored a book called EdSpeak and DoubleTalk: A Glossary to Decipher Hypocrisy...
Joel Westheimer: Three Essential Lessons That COVID Taught Us About Education
Joel Westheimer is a professor of education at the University of Ottawa. He wrote this article for The Ottawa Citizen and shared it with me....
Don’t Believe the “Learning Loss” Hoax
The mainstream media are filled with warnings about “learning loss” and how we must measure it and why students should go to summer school to...