Maureen Kelleher

Maureen Kelleher is Editorial Director at Future Ed. She was formerly Editorial Partner at Ed Post and is a veteran education reporter, a former high school English teacher, and also the proud mom of an elementary student in Chicago Public Schools. Her work has been published across the education world, from Education Week to the Center for American Progress. Between 1998 and 2006 she was an associate editor at Catalyst Chicago, the go-to magazine covering Chicago’s public schools. There, her reporting won awards from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the International Reading Association and the Society for Professional Journalists.

Posts By Maureen Kelleher

Standards

How Maria Montessori Can Help Us Get Past the False Debate Between Work and Play

A false debate rages among parents and even educators these days: play versus academic content. While there’s no question academic expectations for our youngest learners have risen over the last 20...

anti-racism

Gifted Black and Latino Kids Are Being Ignored, and That's Bad for All of Us

When I was in high school, I went to a summer program for advanced students at the University of Delaware. There were lots of smart people there, but one of the standouts was a young African-American...

Charter Schools

How My Neighbors Taught Me That Success Is Not One-Size-Fits-All

The Sunday before Christmas, my friends Fernando and Oscar came by for a visit. When they were small, they lived in an apartment across the street. A few years ago they moved a block south, into a...

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