Of all the boneheaded things Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said during her disastrous “60 Minutes” interview, the one comment that portends the most far-reaching damage to American schools is about...
We have to do a better job of preparing students for college. As a young man growing up in Columbus, Ohio, the messaging was to simply graduate from high school. In elementary school, I knew that...
A few weeks ago, I was out of the classroom. When I came back, the substitute teacher’s notes were not good. “I wish I could tell you it was an easy three days,” the sub notes said. I had done...
I remember the first time I spoke up at a national conference in front of my colleagues. We were at a national meeting of a few hundred urban special education administrators from around the nation...
The New York Post recently profiled Wesley Clark, a 9-year-old fourth-grader at PS 8 in Brooklyn Heights. The article describes a “supposedly progressive Brooklyn Heights public school that talks a...
Last fall, former Shelby County Schools policy director Natalie McKinney assumed leadership of Whole Child Strategies, a nonprofit created to help Memphis neighborhood leaders use data and coordinate...
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