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Mandela and the Shakespeare Bible of Robben Island
On a recent trip to Cape Town, my family and I visited Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent decades of…
July 3, 2018
A Soldier’s Journey from the Battlefield to the Kindergarten Classroom
Too often, we only hear teachers’ stories when there is tragedy or strife or politics on the line. We need…
June 26, 2018
The Semicolon That Almost Destroyed Texas
Like me, you probably don’t fully appreciate the importance of punctuation and grammar in making society function. Fortunately, Malcolm Gladwell’s…
March 5, 2018
Listen to Dewey’s Democracy and Education–for Free
It’s an iconic work in the philosophy of education, but have you read it? No? That’s OK, now you can…
February 8, 2018
Black Thought and the Value of Literature
When Black Thought performed his epic freestyle on Hot 97, the video hit 1M+ views within a day. I myself…
December 18, 2017
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Are Private Schools Immoral?
This powerful interview by The Atlantic is well worth a read for anyone concerned about issues of race and public…
November 14, 2016
FDR on Educational Inequity in 1938. Could’ve Been Written Today.
When you read and listen to enough presidential speeches about education, it becomes unsurprising that American presidents tend to frame…
November 7, 2016
And this is How to Teach Writing in Science Class
I used to do a project with my 9th grade English students where they’d rap literary critiques of Chaucer’s Canterbury…
November 4, 2016
Stop and Listen to James Baldwin on the Place of Writers and Artists. You’ll Be Better for It.
I first encountered James Baldwin in graduate school. Too late, I think, but better than never at all. His words…
September 13, 2016
Cafeteria Food & Race
Listen to this episode Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast series Revisionist History, where he looks at how two universities’ decisions to serve particular…