I want this book

The book is Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism , by David Whitman, and it examines six schools that are succeeding, in part because they explicitly teach middle-class values. The Core Knowledge blog and Thoughts on Education Read More...

Teach for America

There’s a great article in the latest Newsweek about TFA and the problem of attracting and retaining the best teachers. As I said in my post about what policymakers ought to know, our schools of education need attention. Unfortunately, they don’t Read More...

KIPP schools & public schools

I have long been intrigued by KIPP schools and what they accomplish. As a public school teacher, I am chagrined by the way my school in particular — and my district in general — are failing our African-American and Latino students. KIPP schools Read More...