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Yet in the Shadows: School Topics for the Light of Day
Institutional leadership in the charter era, the fate of a deep student underclass, and the teaching of civics are three topics which mistakenly get short shrift in the current conversation around schools. Continue reading
Dubious Tales: Don’t Build It and They Won’t Come
While the Seattle School Board votes to fight a zoning waiver for a new Green Dot charter high school, the Board members seem to ignore complex forces gathering at their door. Continue reading
How Diminished Funding to Higher Education Worsens Income Inequality
Huge cuts in state funding for higher education have left our premier public universities to thirst after the money well to do families from out of state are able to pay for a selective education. Continue reading
Teachers’ Resistance (and Other Stories of Sanity)
I labor as do many with the ill winds that blow out of Washington D.C. Continue reading
Why Do They Leave?
In the rain shadow of the Washington State’s Olympic Mountains, nestled below rugged peaks and ridges, and adjacent to the Straits of Juan de Fuca, sits the small city of Sequim. Continue reading
People, Time, Faith, Cognitive Maps and the Reclamation of Lost Kids
An approach to retrieval of the legion of unmoored kids on the periphery of our schools can be extracted from an innovative treatment model for incarcerated “callous and unemotional” kids. Continue reading
The Two Headed Being in American Education
Ironically, charters have brought to scale and intensity ideas that arose out of research and inconsistent implementation in those nasty public schools. Continue reading
Publics Versus Charters and the Student Underclass
The ideological brawl between charter and public school advocates obscures the truth that there is a substantial group of big city low income kids of color whose needs are not met by either camp. Continue reading
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