Thirteens
Gene Glotzer Photo by Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash This is kind of an addendum to the piece I posted about homework the other day. My daughter was doing her homework tonight, which, as I talked…
The School Walkout
On the morning of March 14, 2018, students all over the country participated in a school walkout to protest gun violence and to honor the seventeen children killed in Parkland,…
The Second First Day Of School
Today was my daughter's first day of first grade. I wrote about her first day of school last year. I reread the post because I was curious how this year…
Academic Language and Barriers
Jamil Ragland I work at a college where I manage the school's curriculum. As part of my job, I have to review and correct spelling errors in course descriptions, which led me…
The Children in the Folders
The most important moment of Dr. Robert Putnam’s presentation “Closing the Opportunity Gap” on July 21st at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts came after he’d already offered his…
Basic Life Skills
There are certain basic life skills everyone should have. It's one of the major failures of our educational system that many people lack them. What's worse is that most people…