When I was a kid, my mother would tell me, “One monkey don’t stop no show!” I was in kindergarten—snaggle-toothed, bright-eyed, and brown-skinned, with a head full of knocker-balls that clacked like...
While Twitter’s chock full of talk about Florida banning books that include “critical race theory (CRT),” there’s even more weirdness going on. Some background: Florida’s Department of Education...
Rather than read Hamlet with my AP English Literature and Composition students as has traditionally been the case, I suggested to this year’s class that we read something different—something local,...
When my colleagues and I asked a group of pre-service teachers to graph and make a claim about data, the response we got surprised us. “Data exploration is completely new to me,” said a college...
The recent announcement by the US Department of Education to propose radical changes to the process by which charter schools must follow to open new schools is a dismal reminder of our education...
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