School Choice
After Watching Betsy DeVos on ‘60 Minutes,' I Can Totally See Why People Don't Trust Her
As a teacher who wants to learn from and become involved in the larger national conversation on education, I tuned in and watched the ‘60 Minutes' interview with Lesley Stahl and Secretary of...
School Funding
We Can Prevent School Shootings Without Arming Teachers
My study of school shootings began in 1998 when I evaluated a 14-year-old boy who carried out a shooting in Paducah, Kentucky. He had been bullied for years at school and he struggled with...
Politics
My Students Are Asking for a Lot More Than Just Lockdown Drills
Seventeen years ago, I was a first-year teacher working alone in my classroom when a police officer came to my door. He told me to “get low” and to come with him to the auditorium. There, I found all...
Poverty
If You Can Find a Budget for Arming Teachers, Then You Can Find Money for Teacher Training
This is not an article about how to stop gun violence in schools. Like most of America, my perspective has been forever changed by the horrific events at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The...
student achievement
Training Teachers in Relationship Building Is Key to Any School Discipline Reform
Reformers and education experts in Washington have spent months debating school discipline policy. But these debates have overlooked a key element successful practitioners have long understood, and...
IEP
Coffee Break: Why Mark Rynone Left Corporate to Help Kids With Special Needs
Mark Rynone considers his passion for education as an outgrowth of family values. After all, his mother, brother and a handful of other relatives work as teachers and education issues have dominated...
