“Just Ask Us” Author Shares Student Insights on Teaching
Heather Wolpert-Gawron's new book centers student voices and student advice to help teachers improve. It's worthwhile reading for almost any middle school or high school teacher....
Reviews
‘Mission High’ Shows Depth, Complexity of School
Anyone who works in schools or cares about schools will appreciate the years of research that went into Kristina Rizga's outstanding book about the educators and students who make Mission High School ...
Path to Success Runs Through Failures
Some parents do everything in their power to ensure that their children don't fail. In her new book, teacher and author Jessica Lahey offers practical advice to help parents break their rescuing habit...
Identity Safety First
Discussions of curriculum and instruction are integral to our profession, but at times we neglect some of the foundational concerns that enable or inhibit learning in the first place. That's the value...
Make Time for ‘Defies Measurement’ (full review)
In "Defies Measurement," Shannon Puckett has produced a documentary that illustrates what has been lost, and what we stand to lose, through the misuse of standardized test results to drive education r...
“Most Likely To Succeed”? New film points to promising changes in schools
A new documentary film, "Most Likely to Succeed," examines ways can improve schools and teaching to better prepare students for a future of rapid, almost unimaginable change....
#EdJourney Seeks the Future Now
Grant Lichtman's #EdJourney takes the reader to 60 innovative schools around the country, offering a contemporary glimpse of what will hopefully be more common approaches to education in the future....
Book Review: This Is Not a Test, by José Vilson
If you’ve read José Vilson’s blog posts, or articles, or follow him on Twitter, maybe you already know he can be a compelling writer and speaker. The impact of his book, This Is Not a ...
‘Crenshaw’ Documentary Reflects Perils of Reconstitution
Originally published on my EdWeek Teacher blog, Road Trips in Education. Imagine – if you don’t know from experience – the challenges of teaching in an urban high school, during a re...