Teaching

I believe that most students with disabilities* can and should engage with the same academic content that any other student would receive. Furthermore, I b

Lately, there has been a clarion call to increase the percentage of Black male teachers in American public schools. Currently, we make up only 2 percent of

It was a student who pointed it out to me. “Hey Miss! Why aren’t the presidential candidates talking about our schools?” My sociology students were engaged

Not so long ago, I learned that one of my former students, a fun-loving, academically strong kid who is now in high school, had a handgun stashed underneat

In 1974, I started my journey as a fifth-grade teacher at Abbottston Elementary—the following week, all the teachers went on strike. After that experience,

Conservatives argue that markets will solve social problems more efficiently and effectively than the public sector while liberals insist that markets leav

I am a strong advocate for using student test scores to assess teacher quality and the most effective means to accomplish this are value added measures (VA

I recently had dinner with two teachers who told me that in their combined 38 years of teaching they have had exactly three meaningful feedback sessions wi

A couple of months ago, the mayor of New York City snuck out a press release about his failure to rid the city of some its poorest performing teachers. Wha