Wrapping Up at Edweek, Part 2

My final EdWeek Teacher blog post involved looking ahead to better teaching, better policies, better systems - and more writing. ...

Diverse Literature and Unpredictable Choices

We can't predict what meaning and value students will find in literature, especially when they have some choice in their reading. ...

Co-opting MLK doesn’t get much worse than this

What would Martin Luther King, Jr. say? Everyone has an opinion and quotes, but we can't all be right....

Charter Schools and Segregation

The concept of choice is hard to argue with - everyone likes choice, and it shouldn't only be reserved for the wealthy; the execution of that idea in policy is a challenging proposition fraught with r...