by Alyssa Weaver Even before the pandemic, schools were struggling to prepare students for the future. In The Opportunity Myth (2018), The New Teacher Project found that out of 1,000 observed lessons, students only achieved grade-level mastery 17% of the time. The report explained a myriad of reasons why schools…

We started working with Hakim (name changed to protect their anonymity) a few months ago when they reached out to us about volunteering with our organization. They talked about their strengths and interests with writing. They also talked about an interest in growing these skills and refining them to hopefully…

By Erica Murphey and Dr. Benjamin Drury An increasingly omnipresent part of curriculum, policy, and programming discussions in schools today include some component of what is called social emotional learning or SEL. SEL can be integrated into math, reading, and physical education. SEL can also be facilitated through intentional workshops…

Careers that are defined as professional or where professionals work tend to have the highest occupational prestige. Not surprisingly, medical professionals tend to top the list of most prestigious occupations for the level of service they provide to their community…and commensurate compensation. Medical professionals train for years in school, are…

Today marks the beginning of the first countrywide teacher strike in England since 2016. Ironically, many of the issues and conditions that triggered the previous demonstration of intolerance for exploitive practices are the same issues motivating teachers to walkout of their schools in protest today. This protest is not just…

It is my observation that college students today are quicker to get attitude with people on campus, send hostile emails to members of the academic community, demand instant gratification from the Bursars Office, and generally act crazy for no good reason in an effort to have their demands met for…

In recent years, Florida has become an increasingly unwelcoming place for ‘progressive’ thinking, policies, and programs. In fact, it could be reasonably argued that recent measures that include banning African American studies classes for “advancing a political agenda” and installing conservative Board of Trustees at New College — a traditionally…

Mass shootings in 2023 are a reminder of the omnipresent threat to our students in public schools. For years, I had no skin in the game so — to be quite honest — school safety was of little concern to me. When I became a parent and started sending my…

Gramsci talks at length about his ideal educational system in a response letter to then Minister of Education Gamile as part of his infamous Prison Notebooks work. At this time in Italy, widespread divisions existed between the elite and non-elite group with regards to education. Elite schools effectively had every…