Stories

I began teaching as a mid-career change after many years in the private sector, and my business mindset followed me into the classroom: I expected measurab

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 o

I’m not bragging when I say, “My daughter is smart.” I started reading to her when she was a newborn. At four months old, she could turn the pages on a boo

Someone finally got it right on who’s got the best school choice system. Every now and again I’d come across a research paper that ranks big-city school di

There has been no education leader more critical to the progress and stability of the Denver Public Schools (DPS) than Mary Seawell. She was a strong and s

This weekend a paper in New York state reported that 70 percent of students at State University of New York colleges need to take remedial courses—this is

I am the principal of Cherokee Elementary, a Memphis school where, not long ago, only 14 percent of students were proficient in math, and just 16 percent i

Years of ribbing by older cousins has given me a thick skin that helps the daily work I do with middle school students. But this thick skin, my shield, has

I’m terrible at math. In seventh grade, I became aware of my poor math preparation when I entered a team math competition against other Catholic schools in