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House Hunting as a Person of Color With a Child on the Way
Brandon Greene is facing a balancing act: doing what’s best for his arriving son while not losing pieces of himself. With the birth of my son just weeks away, my partner and I have continued in our...
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An Excerpt from THE FRACKING KING
This weekend we have an excerpt from James Browning’s The Fracking King. When the tap water at the Hale Boarding School for Boys bursts into flames, people blame fracking. Life at Hale has always been...
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Dear Teacher, You’re Not As Good As You Think You Are
You might even suck if your students are already 95% educated on DAY ONE.–––Sometimes we get it the first time. But usually we have to be taught something a few times—in different ways, by different...
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Public Schools Need More Than Google’s ‘Happiness Directive’
The problem with schools won’t be solved by aiming to make the students happy.—This is in response to the essay “What If Schools Took the Google Approach?”on The Good Men Project Education section by...
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Is John Oliver’s Closer Look at Charter Schools the Whole Story?
It’s a conversation as hot and fiery as any other political touchstone out there: should there be a cap on charter schools, and are charter schools—overall—better for children, democracy, and society...
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The Problem with the ‘Good Schools’ and What We’re Truly ‘Afforded’
We live where we live for a lot of reasons.We feel it’s a good place to grow up for our kids. A big reason for this, the biggest reason we are here, is the schools. We moved here for the schools. It’s...
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Single-Sex Schools: Could They Harm Your Child?
Embed from Getty ImagesGender-segregated education is making a comeback. Single-sex classrooms, long discouraged under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits gender discrimination in education, have...
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