Resistance

I advertised that I would follow up with explaining why observing K-12 teachers, rather than using standardized testing to evaluate education practice, would be a hard sell. At least, I will try to explain. Teachers are defensive. It may be hard for people who have not taught to understand how vulnerable teachers are. And I […]

Fringe Elements

I’m not a Kennedy groupie. Before I started reading all these articles about Senator Ted and his accomplishments, I thought of him the same way I think of PETA: I agree with the agenda, but the reputation get my eyes rolling… why do they always have to look like such wackos? Then again, the extremists at PETA, while […]

The Sound of One Man Waiting

I think when people say, “I want to be beautiful, and I want to be in love,” they are actually saying, “I want to be listened to.”

March to April

In March, I went to the computer to subscribe to the New Yorker, and found out one of my students had been shot. He was dead. I was having another one of my seizures of certainty that I could not be an educated person, a writer, a worthwhile human being, without subscribing to the New […]