Private Florida School Will Not Hire Vaccinated Teachers.
“O, that way madness lies.” — King LearThe anti-vaxxer madness has descended to a new level of insanity. Teachers at the Centner Academy in Miami have been advised against getting the COVID vaccination...
View ArticleSchool infrastructure should be treated as a human rights issue
This story was originally published at Prism.By Frank GettridgeMore than a decade ago during my first year as principal of Clara Barton Elementary School on Chicago’s South Side, I experienced...
View ArticleSchools and Stossel: Koch Funding Efforts To Insert Denial Into Education...
A new report from UnKochMyCampus shows the Koch disinformation machine has been funding universities at an accelerating pace, funding a network of over 225 campuses and non-profits with a total of $456...
View Articleas another school year comes to a close
I step back to reflect on many things, including this strangest year of my more than 2 ½ decades as a classroom teacher. It is also as I approach what I suppose is a milestone of sorts, my 75th...
View ArticleMarc Lamont Hill cut the mic on a Republican, then demolished efforts to ban...
Republican lawmakers across the country are pushing to ban critical race theory from schools in a giant effort to create a culture war and distract from the fact that what they really want to ban is...
View ArticleCaught in Racist Rants
Zoom and other online video conferencing applications are exposing the underlying racism that infects American society, including in its schools. A Jersey City high school science teacher was recently...
View ArticleTeachers shouldn't have to be superheroes, this week in the war on workers
Care work was already work before the pandemic, and there was already a crisis. But the coronavirus pandemic made the crisis exponentially worse. Sarah Jaffe takes on the policy and personal roots of...
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Top Comments: Teacher Appreciation Week?
So it’s Teacher Appreciation Week this week. Of course, it’s also Nurses Appreciation Week as well. Can you tell where this is going? This is the week where we “appreciate” teachers for doing what we...
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Teach Civics In Schools or Face More Insurrections
Ignorance Does Not Lead to Freedom The slogans of the January 6 insurrections who stormed the Capitol demonstrated much passion. But they had little understanding of how a democratic...
View ArticleFlorida teacher who refused to remove Black Lives Matter banner removed from...
Studies and personal accounts from students of color reinforce a major problem in the education system in the United States: Students of color, and Black students in particular, are subjected to...
View ArticleI Was A Failed School Teacher
Chapter 1: A Search For BooksIn the summer before the school year was to begin, my elation at being offered a teaching job was tinged with pesky anxiety.For I’d become privy to stories describing the...
View ArticleReflections of a Social Studies Teacher
The nomination of former social studies teacher Tim Walz as the Democratic Party’s candidate for Vice-President gives me hope for the future of the country and of teaching. As a creative teacher Tim...
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