The Center for American Progress, one of my websites for educational analysis from the research side of the field (though I don’t always agree with its conclusions; the place is fairly good at producing raw informative data and seems less slanted left in education as they are in other fields), has released this interactive map [...]
Dina in her blog, The Line, is running a great series of posts here and here responding to the book Star Teachers of Children in Poverty by Martin Haberman, which I previously mentioned here that I have just finished reading. Dina links to a recent article in the Washing Post by Sarah Fine, a 4-year [...]
It was odd to see this coming out of Germany and realize that school violence is not just my daily battlefield. Reports are that three teachers died trying to save students from this boy run amok. I was a junior in high school when Columbine occurred. That shocked me something awful. Now, I’ve seen lots [...]
