The U.S. Formula for Children and the Choices We Refuse to Make
The formula for children in the U.S. can be summed up in one word, I think: “harsh.” And the response we should have to this formula is “inexcusable.” Let’s consider the U.S. formula for children: Corporal punishment—persists in 19 states in the U.S. Medication—ADHD diagnoses and medications have risen in the U.S. during the same 30-year period as the current accountability era in education. Grad
Beyond Doing the Wrong Thing the Right Way
My nephew is in elementary school, and my parents drive him to school each morning and arrive at his school an hour or two before school lets out each afternoon. This is a rural community in the South where many family members do the same—surrounding the school well before dismissal and often socializing. Recently, my mother told me about parents of a child at that school who are refusing to allow
Gaiman, Prisons, Literacy, and the Problems with Satire
Regarding my recent blog about Neil Gaiman for Secretary of Education (and the edited version at The Answer Sheet), Ken Libby took me to task on Twitter for, among other things, Gaiman’s comment about prisons and literacy: I was once in New York, and I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons – a huge growth industry in America. The prison industry needs to plan its future growth –
Pop Culture and the Mutant Narrative: X-Men Endure
The late 1930s and early 1940s birthed the superhero comic book fascination that despite several bumps along the way has endured into the twenty-first century where superhero films are huge box-office successes and pop culture gold mines. In both the comic book and film universes, superhero reboots are common: Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man have all experienced revised origins in the pages of th
OCT 22
Medicating ADHD in the Brave New World of High-Stakes Accountability
Miranda: O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t. —William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. 203–206 —– Utopias seem much more attainable than one may have previously thought. And we are now faced with a much more frightening thought: how do we prevent their permanent fulfillment?…Utopias are attainable
FedEd Celebrating Holidays with TFA Donations
FedEd Celebrating Holidays with TFA Donations.
OCT 21
Aren’t All Children Equally Deserving?
Aren’t All Children Equally Deserving?.
An Industry of Mediocrity?: How about Journalism?
An Industry of Mediocrity?: How about Journalism?.
Pop Culture and the Mutant Narrative: X-Men Endure | the becoming radical
Pop Culture and the Mutant Narrative: X-Men Endure | the becoming radical: POP CULTURE AND THE MUTANT NARRATIVE: X-MEN ENDUREThe late 1930s and early 1940s birthed the superhero comic book fascination that despite several bumps along the way has endured into the twenty-first century where superhero films are huge box-office successes and pop culture gold mines.In both the comic book and film unive