student support
I Will Never Again Teach at a School Without Dedicated Mentoring Time for Students
For many educators, January is a time to return to our jobs revived and renewed after the holiday season. For teachers at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, January has a special meaning because it...
bias
27 Mistakes White Teachers of Black Students Make and How to Fix Them
Editor's note: This article was updated on July 24, 2024. A few years back, I was in my room meeting parents during an open house days before the school year started. A woman walked in, looked up...
Charter Schools
Native Families Have Used School Choice to Save Their Children for More Than 50 Years
When their sons were told they’d have to cut their hair to continue attending the local public school, Jerry and Pat Roy began homeschooling their children. It was 1971, and the Roys, citizens of the...
Teaching
Here's Why My Heart Grew Three Sizes While Doing Cafeteria Duty
You know that iconic scene in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the original, not that abominable remake) when the narrator says, “Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart, grew three...
opportunity gap
You Can Call It a 'Lost Decade,' But I See a Lot of Good Things Happening
The spin never stops when it comes to education and it goes into overdrive with the close of a decade. Amidst all the hype of a lost decade and the need for humility from education reformers,...
Teaching
Not Everything Of Value in Education Can Be Captured By a Number
The past decade is the first that I have spent entirely as an educator, and it is incredible to reflect back on how much things have changed over that time. At the federal level, our education system...