Mentoring Future Faculty of Color Group (MFFC)
The Mentoring Future Faculty of Color Group (MFFC) seeks to address the lack of racial diversity among the study body…
Quick Comment on De Blasio’s Plan for NYC’s Troubled Schools
Last week the Times summarized De Blasio’s plan for NYC’s troubled schools: “The new program will designate 94 of the…
Quick Comment on De Blasio’s Plan for NYC’s Troubled Schools
Last week the Times summarized De Blasio’s plan for NYC’s troubled schools: “The new program will designate 94 of the…
What’s Your Story?
By Shaili Shah There is something mysterious about stories. But they are not like puzzles or problems to be solved…
Education matters for the good life.
By Danica Savonick When I was first encouraged to think about why education matters and what it would look like…
Anne Donlon: “First fight. Then fiddle.”
From Anne Donlon:
We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan, Grayed in, and gray. “Dream” makes a giddy sound, not strong Like “rent,” “feeding a wife,” “satisfying a man.” –from Gwendolyn Brooks’s “kitchenette building” in “A Street in Bronzeville.” This May Day, I read Selected Poems of Gwendolyn Brooks over my oatmeal, before travelling around […]
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In the past few years, May 1 has been a day where many students have rallied
Why we should watch “180 Days Well Spent”
About a month and a half ago the good people at PARCEO (Participatory Action Research Center for Education Organizing), for…
NYC Latin@s and Education
My dissertation examines and documents experiences with education reform amongst residents of NYC’s Latino core neighborhoods. Latino core neighborhoods are…
Teachers for Trayvon
I joined countless other teachers today in wearing a hoodie for Trayvon Martin. We wore this symbolic item of clothing…
Occupy Wall Street / Power of Protest
I knew when I started this blog that it was going to be a challenge to keep up once the…
