GenEd: Dodgeball Repeats Itself (Part One)
"Math and language matter; history doesn't." How can I prove my students wrong?
GenEd: Kill the Mockingbird, Already!
As a serious study of American racism, Harper Lee’s "Mockingbird" is shallow, misleading, and actually quite dangerous.
GenEd: Dumb Kids
Stop telling kids they're dumb by not telling kids they're dumb.
GenEd: “Real Words”
Ordering minority groups to “speak proper English” suppresses and negates their culture and identity.
GenEd: All Testing Left Behind
Testing, not kids, is what's failing across America.
GenEd: “After Porn Wins”: How Delusions of Censorship Are Destroying Our Kids
Your children already KNOW.
GenEd: The Roads Not Taken
Doctor. Lawyer. Pharmacist. Engineer. If all else fails, be a teacher. "It is concerning—if not blatantly outrageous—that an entire community’s sense of accomplishment boils down to these narrow, shallow, and utterly invalid standards of success."
GenEd: “Ladderal” Moves in Education
"We are not going to reform decades of educational malpractice by replacing chalkboards with smartboards, notebooks with chromebooks, instructional texts with instructional video...that is, gimmicks that continue to shove kids up the 'education' ladder. The problem is the ladder itself."
GenEd: A Cocky Teenage Girl and The Weeknd Changed My Life (Part Two: Abel)
If you don’t know who Abel Tesfaye is, then you are culturally illiterate.
GenEd: A Cocky Teenage Girl and The Weeknd Changed My Life (Part One: Lama)
Lama sat me down and made me humble. Then The Weeknd showed me that only losers go to school.
