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Equity vs. Equality — The College Edition
(None of My Brothers or Sister Went College...and that is Truly a Shame) The only stress that rivals back-to-school time, is apply-to-college time. For some families, college applications are the culmination of a decade (or more) of preparation, for others, it's a...
Cultural Continuity: A Interesting Concept…Hard to Execute
(The teacher I needed would have looked like this) I have to give kudos to WestEd's Center for Child and Family Studies as a forerunner in embracing, against the social trend, the concept of "Cultural Continuity". Their research supported the fact that Hispanic...
From A Share Cropping Field to Stanford University
(My Father is on the far left of the back row) In some families everyone is a cop, or a doctor, or in the military. Well, teacher families are a thing too. My children’s grandmother, grandfather, and mother all joined the education corps, so to speak. I can’t make...
Reality Check
Lovely bulletin boards, PTA fundraisers, and singing kids at assemblies aside; let us not be fooled...shit-showiness is always present to one degree or another. I support public education. YES. I. DO. But the problems that schools have are the same problems that the...
The First Day of School – The March Begins
It’s here…FINALLY! The fashion show of new outfits, the chatter on the playground, the hugging of friends reunited -- all these eternal rituals unfold as the clock ticks down to the first bell of the 2017-2018 school year. Students’ anxiety, which hit when the first...
The March Begins — Read the full article on Monday
Excerpt from: The March Begins ...I think I can actually smell the hair products, the cold sweats, hear the joyful laughter as well as the well rehearsed inspirational “welcome back” and “looking ahead” assembly speeches and intercom announcements...
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