Mutual Selection Beats Random Assignment
Let student teachers and mentors choose the best fit
Let student teachers and mentors choose the best fit
Faith in the Law
The Supreme Court upholds religious discrimination
The Supreme Court upholds religious discrimination
Broken on the Court
When the All-Boy Band Visited the All-Girl School
Two worlds collided today. Fortunately, only a stereotype broke during the impact. I teach at the only all-girl middle school in Oakland, California, Julia Morgan School for Girls. And today, during Monday morning assembly, the girls listened to the only all-boy choir from the only all-boy middle school in Oakland, Pacific Boychoir Academy. Boy bands [...]
Foundations Matter
A Detroit boy works to fix the public schools
A Detroit boy works to fix the public schools
A Trip to the Rose Garden
The Student Who Taught Me How to Teach
I was 22 and straight out of my Teach For America training when I met Wendall. It was 1996, and he was an 11-year-old 6th grader in my very first class. He immediately caught my eye because he had a proclivity for being “off task.” I thought he might be suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity [...]
