Using individualism in its extreme, American schools are becoming more and more un-democratic. Using the euphemism of school choice, American citizens have been told over and over that public schools are a failure,...
Read MoreIs choosing a school like choosing a brand of milk in the grocery store? According to one politician, giving parents a choice in selecting schools is no different than giving them a choice in buying milk. Here is what the...
Read MoreThis is a letter of Thank You to the teachers of Chicago from the Teaching Georgia Writing Collective. The letter was initially posted on Maureen Downey’s Get Schooled website on the Atlanta Journal Constitution....
Read More“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of...
Read MoreOn August 4, 2011, Nikhil Goyal, a sophomore at Syosset High School in Long Island, New York wrote and asked me answer some interview questions for a book he was writing about “transforming our 19th Century industrial...
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