California
Don’t Talk to Me About ‘Privatization,’ Because Your ‘Public’ School Is Hardly Public
In Oakland, one of the highest achieving schools in the city is Hillcrest Elementary. It’s a “public” school that is 5 percent free and reduced-price lunch, 2 percent English-language learners, 8...
Student Voice
This Is How Far a Simple 'I Believe in You' Can Go
"I didn’t realize what I can do and that I can make a difference with my actions. Thank you for showing me that I can do something like this!” Armando, one of the leaders in the college-readiness...
Charter Schools
Ed Reformers, Here's the One Important Voice You're Ignoring
Maybe we should just be honest and admit that we are kidding ourselves. We say that the election of Trump is surprising, but we have seen this coming for many years now. Voter suppression, a Congress...
Politics
3 Ways Teachers Can Lead Beyond the Classroom This Year
For the first nine years of my teaching career, my focus was within the four walls of my classroom. Everything I did had a finite goal of “How can I be better for my students today?” Many teachers...
Teaching
I Went to a Good School, So Why Am I Terrible at Math?
Math is/was/always will be my worst subject. It doesn’t matter if it’s factorials (good God, what?), statistics (it looks easy but it’s not), or even something as simple as long division—there’s...
New York
Going From the Bronx to a Suburban Public School Was a Complete Culture Shock
7:00 a.m. Waking up as an 8-year-old, I got out of bed and proceeded to the bathroom to brush my teeth. The entire morning I had chills throughout my spine at the thought of going to school. It had...
