Literacy in Leafstrewn
Thursday, August 12, 2021
"Are you all rich?" (Problems with Philanthropy, Part III)
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One of my most vivid memories of the school I taught at in Harlem was when some rich white ladies came to my classroom . I forget who the la...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Problems with Philanthropy: Scalability
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In the 1990s I worked, first as a teacher, then as a reading tutor, at a small independent school in Harlem. The experience was great in man...
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Monday, August 9, 2021
25 years ago, I took a yellow cab up to Harlem...
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I began my teaching career 25 years ago, at a small independent school in a poor neighborhood of New York City. I was twenty-six, I had just...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
If we keep some form of remote schooling next year, don't blame teachers' unions
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It looks like next fall will not bring the paradise regained that so many teachers and parents were hoping for. The lost Eden of pre-pandemi...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
The Null Hypothesis: Boring, but usually true?
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As an English teacher, one of my main goals is for my students to become better readers. I've been doing this job for twenty years now, ...
Friday, July 9, 2021
Deus Ex Scholia Redux: Is Education the Biggest Social Justice Issue?
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Someone I know and respect tweeted out yesterday the following: "The biggest social justice issue is education." This is an intere...
Friday, July 2, 2021
Poverty and Educational Achievement: the importance of having enough
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Everyone knows that, on average, poor kids do worse in school and on reading tests. Poverty is highly correlated with school success, and in...
Saturday, June 26, 2021
New study of universal preschool has confusing results...
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I've been thinking a lot this past week about reading, vocabulary, and poverty, but I haven't gotten my thoughts in order. In the me...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Deus Ex Scholia (or, Michael Lewis has a bad idea)
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Post-pandemic, I'm coming back to this blog as a place to think through questions about education and literacy. Because education matter...
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