Stories

I Thought I Knew How to Support Students of Color Until I Learned This

A few months into my time as Oregon’s Teacher of the Year I was asked to speak to the largest gathering of teachers in my state. As I stood at the podium, addressing an auditorium full of teachers, I...

Charter Schools

A Union That Has to Earn Its Members and Their Money Is a Union I Can Support

It’s been quite a few days for the Supreme Court. First, they sided with anti-abortion right advocates in NIFLA v. Becerra. Then they upheld Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban. And most recently, in Janus v....

Politics

My Native American Students Don’t Need to Be Taught About Racism But They Do Need a Space to Talk About It

Just this year alone, Kanye West has said slavery was a “choice,” Roseanne Barr compared former Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape, Starbucks closed down 8,000 stores to hold anti-bias training...

Achievement Gap

Nice to See the Right and the Left Agree on Something, Too Bad They're Both Wrong

Two former U.S. secretaries of education, Margaret Spellings, who served under President George W. Bush, and Arne Duncan, who served under President Barack Obama, think the movement to improve public...

Politics

Congratulations, Graduates! We Don’t Care About You at All.

Hello, class of 2018! Welcome to the last day of your K-12 education and the launch of your adult lives. I know that today is customarily a celebration of all you’ve accomplished. But these are not...

Student Voice

One of My Most Conservative Students Shares What It’s Like to Be in My Class

My learning this year has been greatly assisted by a number of students willing to be honest with me. One of them, Alec, is the kind of kid teachers love to have. He will take a random idea or...

AI In The Classroom: What A Year Has Taught Us

I Thought I Knew How to Support Students of Color Until I Learned This

A Union That Has to Earn Its Members and Their Money Is a Union I Can Support

My Native American Students Don’t Need to Be Taught About Racism But They Do Need a Space to Talk About It

Nice to See the Right and the Left Agree on Something, Too Bad They're Both Wrong

Congratulations, Graduates! We Don’t Care About You at All.

One of My Most Conservative Students Shares What It’s Like to Be in My Class