I’ve mentioned before that several colleagues and I have been working on a project that involves conversations with teachers, administrators and teacher educators about what drew them to the work, what has enabled them to persist, often in the face of formidable obstacles, and what words they have for people who might follow the paths they’ve carved. For readers who are already in the ed biz, but...
I was part-way through my next posting when this appeared on my Facebook page. It was posted by Corey Robin, a professor at CUNY whose work is grounded in deep research yet is also deeply personal. Corey has been a courageous outspoken Jewish antizionist long before Gaza made that label more fashionable. These are not Corey’s words, but those of David Myers, professor of Jewish Studies at UCLA. I...
For students and teachers, Labor Day used to be the marker for the start of a new school year, but almost everyone has jumped the gun by now, in some parts of the South by almost a month now. So, let’s stay with the holiday’s original meaning – celebrating workers and their rights to organize for fair wages, humane work hours and protected holidays. I’m going to invoke the latter to declare a...