Monthly Archives: May 2010
Michigan Future Schools: Saving Detroit One School at a Time
In this era of budget cuts—and, therefore, era of “creative funding”—we must look to alternative ways to fund the kind of education our kids deserve. Michigan Future Schools, a non-profit out of Detroit, has a plan to finance new schools in one of the grimmest economies in the nation. Continue reading
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My Favorite Lesson
One English teacher’s favorite lesson of the year. Continue reading
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Reflections on Urban School Teaching: Black Is Beautiful
by JILL GUERRA When I was growing up in the 1970’s, people who had a similar cultural background to mine were nonexistent in the media. The closest I got to a media representation of someone from my cultural background was … Continue reading
Filed under Classroom Reflections, Essays
Learning for the Sake of Life
by JESSE SCACCIA Something that I tell my students over and over is that the point of school is not to succeed at the next level of school. We go to school–and we work hard there–because what we learn in … Continue reading
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