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How Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde Ganged Up on Me – A Lesson in Bureaucracy
His mother glared at me. She struggled to control her tone… Continue reading
An Immigrant Story
Though some immigrants enter the United States with skills, or money reserves, or family members already arrived to keep them afloat, in the beginning their story typically is one of poverty, of hardship and of lives tested….. Continue reading
The Long Hard Way Out of Sticky Bottom; Amarillo College and the Battle with Poverty
It’s harder to be poor. Many readers will acknowledge they have been charmed by a loan from a parent…. Continue reading
Is the God of Testing Dead? Or Just More Dimly Lit in the Firmament?
The god of testing may have run its course and its power diminished. The reduction of teaching and learning to its quantifiable data points, a child of market thinking and a need for accountability, is necessarily here with us to stay, but perhaps in a more proportional role 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
Discipline and Students of Color: the Ecology of Student Experience
You are a student of color in a large American high school, perhaps also a recent immigrant. A friend of yours has run afoul a school code; let us say by talking disrespectfully, out of control, to a teacher. Continue reading
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Tagged alternative schools, charter schools, disproportionate discipline, econlogy of schools, ecosystem of schools, iGrad, school funding, staff mix school funding, students of color, Suspension, unconscious bias, Washington State Legislature
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Assault on Obamacare Imperils Low Income Students
The Congressional assault on Obamacare undercuts school reform by eliminating health care insurance for many low income students; healthy kids learn better. Continue reading
Mindfulness and the Low Income Brain Drain
Mindfulness and meditation emerge as one tool in schools’ slow grapple with the psychological and neurobiological consequences of poverty in student lives. Continue reading
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