The Transformative Power of a Classic Novel
Chinua Achebe's most famous novel, Things Fall Apart, a trenchant exploration of colonialism and culture, has long been staple of of high school and college reading lists. Read Full Post >
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February 12, 2013
Special Ed. Teacher's Anti-Gay Remarks Spark Firestorm
An Indiana special education teacher who is part of a Christian group that wants to ban LGBT students from the high school prom told a local T.V. station that she doesn't believe gays have a "purpose in life." Read Full Post >
February 08, 2013
Should Introverts Be Graded on Classroom Participation?
In the Atlantic, teacher Jessica Lahey makes an argument for continuing to calculate classroom participation into student grades, despite complaints from the parents of introverted students. Read Full Post >
May 24, 2012
Teaching Standard English While Embracing Dialect Diversity
The growing numbers of second-generation Latino students attending U.S. schools pose new challenges for teachers, according to a Fox News Latino report. These students are often fluent in English but use speech infused with Spanish accents, rhythm, and usage that they pick up in their Latino communi... Read Full Post >
April 30, 2012
Gap-Narrowing Calif. District Gives Teachers Freedom to Experiment
According to the Los Angeles Times, Corona-Norco Unified School District, the 10th largest school system in California, has managed to avoid "the pitfalls common to similar districts with diverse student populations and budget constraints." Read Full Post >
March 24, 2012
ASCD 2012: Addressing Opportunity Gaps
Live from the ASCD Annual Conference in Philadelphia It was pretty darn sunny in Philadelphia yesterday—record-breaking temperatures even for this time of year. It's cloudier now but I'll be inside for much of the next two days, along with 8,000 or so educators attending the annual ASCD confer... Read Full Post >
January 04, 2012
A Payne-ful Discussion
On his blog Borderland, teacher Doug Noon laments the reading assignment he was given over the winter break—Ruby Payne's Framework for Understanding Poverty. He writes: This is to prepare us for the indoctrination session [part of his school's improvement plan] to follow upon our return from o... Read Full Post >
December 15, 2011
White Accountant Has All the Answers for Poor Black Kids
Gene Marks, a public accountant who writes about the business of technology, recently posted an item on Forbes' site entitled "If I Were a Poor Black Kid." Marks, as he discloses upfront, is actually a middle-aged white man from a middle-class upbringing. I think it might be about time for some self... Read Full Post >
December 05, 2011
Reaching Minority Students Through Cultural Competency
In Indianapolis Public Schools, where the majority of teachers are white and the majority of students belong to ethnic and racial minority groups, teachers are being pushed to bridge cultural divides that may be present in their classrooms. Read Full Post >
November 15, 2011
Celebrating International Education Week
Need an excuse to take your students on a cultural outing or to organize a multiethnic potluck lunch for the class? This would be the time to do it. International Education Week, an annual initiative of the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Education that started back in 2000, runs through the end of this week. Read Full Post >
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