Politics

Will the parents of my Mexican students ever look at me the same after Halloween in Middleton, Idaho? On Friday, I had an awesome day at school. I was the

I recently had the opportunity to join with a few educators in a meeting with a prominent political official in my state to discuss teacher pay. In the cou

It can be tempting for education advocates to see immigration as a related, but not overlapping, issue. For folks accustomed to thinking about school fundi

This is my living room—organized chaos. You’ll note the toys I haven’t had time to put away and my 4-year-old son’s precious artwork on the walls. Candidat

Government is not a static entity to be studied. It is a living, breathing being, which young people can learn to understand and influence. Never has it be

Like just about everything, the Kavanaugh hearing was a teachable moment. But it seems to me that many of us are teaching the wrong lessons. On a plane the

Hear us teachers loud and clear: We do not want to be armed, and we do not want to work in prison-like school buildings. We became teachers to help student

Let’s just call her Betsy DeVoid. Our secretary of education earns a name-change because of her predilection for voiding guidance that protects our most di

Nick was a sixth-grader who, before joining my classroom, had been suspended from several of his previous schools. He is easy to pick out in a class of 30