Ina recent story I made mention of my wife and I fighting for my professional life against large counter-parties: the UFT ($180 Million) and NYCDOE ($25.6 Billion) banded together to revoke my principal license, without cause and against the expressed objection of my...
I am a high school principal in New York City. Well, kind of. But that’s not the point. The point is that after fifteen years in Education, I have known about the link between reading and writing because some of the best ELA teachers in NYC worked for me and they...
I am torn when thinking of early childhood education. Children’s’ experiences in their first three years of life are the most crucial to their longtime life outcomes. Ideally, all young humans would be allowed to spend those early years with one or more loving...
By the time a child has reached the age of 12, they’ve learned that it’s more important to get the right answers than it is to ask thoughtful questions. The current education system focuses on teaching kids how to produce correct answers, but not how to find and...
Students who experience a transformational educational experience usually do so because an adult in a school saw their potential well before they saw it themselves. The converse is also true. Teachers expect that 58 percent of their white high school students...
The United States spends on average $16,268 a year on each student. The global average is $10,759. Spending so much money on each student may make it seem like the U.S. is offering a better quality of education, but that assumption would be wrong. In fact, American...
