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Recently, I read an account of an interview Studs Terkel did with James Baldwin. The summary was published by The Biblioracle Recommends and written by John Warner. Here’s some of what the article shared: “Baldwin was well-known and well-established by this time [1961]. He’d returned to America from self-exile in Paris and finished the manuscript…

Starting new learning opportunities for kids is challenging. Take for example the roadblocks learning pods and microschools are encountering recently while they try to launch new “out of school” learning models. Recently, The 74 online reported on the “growing pains” faced by new innovations in public learning: “Tia Howard thought she’d found the perfect spot…

It’s tough being a teacher. They are underpaid, under-appreciated, and serve as the primary scapegoats for whatever ills face the public education system. But most of all, teachers have lost most of their autonomy over the past 50 years. As this country focused on school reform, we talked ourselves into believing that teachers had too…

When Public Becomes Private Earlier this month, The 74 online’s Tim DeRoche wrote, “You might think public schools are open to everyone. Unfortunately, they’re not. I’ve spent the last five years looking at the admissions criteria and enrollment procedures for America’s top public elementary schools, and they operate under an archaic and discriminatory assignment system…

ASCD just released a special issue of Educational Leadership, where they lay out 10 challenges facing K12 education today. Here are the 10 greatest challenges facing our schools today according to ASCD: How do we recruit, hire, and retain quality teachers? Are we teaching care or control? Do young learners possess a vision of what…

Our definition of a public school is changing. And so, how we support our public school system financially is also changing. Mark Lieberman, an EducationWeek online reporter specializing in school finance, recently wrote, “Over the years of covering school finance, I keep running up against one nagging question: Does the way we pay for public…

Here’s your Friday News Roundup. Alaska Natives Are Claiming Their Seat at the Table (The 74) “Three decades ago, Herb Schroeder was working as a professor and engineer for the University of Alaska, researching rural sanitation. But in that work, he never met a native Alaskan engineer.” “So in 1995, he decided to change that,…

I’ve written about the Carnegie Unit before. “In the early 1900’s, the nation’s civic leaders launched a full court press to make secondary education – previously offered to an elite few – available to the many. They compelled communities to build high schools and sought to convince the populace that a diploma was their ticket…