The Wage Gap Is Worse for Black Women

 The Wage Gap Is Worse for Black Women

Why and How One Instructor Uses Trigger Warnings | Just Visiting

Why and How One Instructor Uses Trigger Warnings | Just Visiting

Why do kids go to school? Americans are divided on the answer, a new poll shows.

Why do kids go to school? Americans are divided on the answer, a new poll shows.

Why Black Men Quit Teaching, Chris Emdin

Why Black Men Quit Teaching, Chris Emdin

Colin Kaepernick and What It Means To Be Patriotic In Schools, Jose Vilson

Colin Kaepernick and What It Means To Be Patriotic In Schools, Jose Vilson

Mike Rose: Who Is Smarter Than Whom?: Status Games in Higher Ed

Mike Rose: Who Is Smarter Than Whom?: Status Games in Higher Ed

This last point about getting better at educating is at the center of a new book by my UCLA colleague, Alexander Astin, an expert on higher education in the United States. In Are You Smart Enough?, Astin argues that colleges—especially “elite” colleges—are more concerned with acquiring status markers of intelligence (high entering student gpas and test scores, faculty publication numbers, and so on) rather than creating the conditions for students to become more intelligent during their time in college. Instead of the scramble to attract students already identified as smart, Astin wonders, what if colleges put increased effort into helping students become smarter through more attention to teaching, mentoring, and enrichment activities? It’s a provocative and important question.

Poverty and the ideological imperative: a call to unhook from deficit and grit ideology and to strive for structural ideology in teacher education, Gorski

Poverty and the ideological imperative: a call to unhook from deficit and grit ideology and to strive for structural ideology in teacher education, Paul Gorski

Summer is Over, School Begins in August | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Summer is Over, School Begins in August | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Forty-Seven Minutes, Nick Flynn

Forty-Seven Minutes

Nick Flynn, 1960

Years later I’m standing before a roomful of young writers in a high school in Texas. I’ve asked them to locate an image in a poem we’d just read—their heads at this moment are bowed to the page. After some back & forth about the grass & a styrofoam cup, a girl raises her hand & asks, Does it matter? I smile—it is as if the universe balanced on those three words & we’ve landed in the unanswerable. I have to admit that no, it doesn’t, not really, matter, if rain is an image or rain is an idea or rain is a sound in our heads. But, I whisper, leaning in close, to get through the next forty-seven minutes we might have to pretend it does.

Student test scores: How the sausage is made and why you should care

Student test scores: How the sausage is made and why you should care, Brian A. Jacob

More than three decades later, student recalls teacher’s kindness

More than three decades later, student recalls teacher’s kindness

The Politics of Math Education

The Politics of Math Education

120 Years ofAmerican Education:A Statistical Portrait

120 Years ofAmerican Education:A Statistical Portrait

Official, Supplemental, and Relative Poverty in 2014

Official, Supplemental, and Relative Poverty in 2014

Audie from Hard Times at Douglass High

West Baltimore epilogue: Death of Audie Mickens

The tragedy of Audie Mickens

Student Featured in HBO Education Documentary Killed