Last semester, we submitted a request for funding to the Doctoral Student’s Council (DSC) (this was to fund the talks for the Spring semester). This was our first time submiting to the Grants Committee and I think we were a little too ambitious and ambiguous. I attended the committee meeting and explained the GEOS program [...]
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Williamsburg Success Charter
by Kiersten Greene
Published on January 29, 2012 1:02 pm.If you live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, it’s hard not to notice the billboards and posters advertising the Williamsburg Success Academy Charter School. I snapped these shots a few weeks ago, as I walked into the subway station near my home and felt my jaw drop at the audacity of the school’s promoters. Take this first [...]
What Do I Mean by Policy?
by Kiersten Greene
Published on September 13, 2011 10:35 pm.I asked one of my professors during my first or second year of grad school, How are education policies made? I demanded an answer to a truly impossible question, and my professor’s answer was appropriate: It is a very complex process. As a fifth grade teacher, I couldn’t fathom the enormous chasm that lived between [...]
Night Before the First Day of School
by Kiersten Greene
Published on September 7, 2011 11:51 pm.I wonder if my bad sleep patterns lately are a subconscious act of solidarity with teachers throughout New York City who are preparing to start another academic year tomorrow. I remember all too well that charged mixture of excitement and anxiety that churns in your belly the night before school starts — I always thought [...]
