Susan Ohanian.org: English Class in Common Core Era: 'Tom Sawyer' and Court Opinions

Susan Ohanian.org: English Class in Common Core Era: 'Tom Sawyer' and Court Opinions

Writing for the Public: A Framework

Writing for the Public: A Framework

Recommended: Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty, Paul C. Gorski

Recommended: Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty, Paul C. Gorski

The Politics of Calling for No Politics

The Politics of Calling for No Politics

Middle-Class Assumptions Fail Literacy Instruction

Middle-Class Assumptions Fail Literacy Instruction

John Dewey:

What avail is it to win prescribed amounts of information about geography and history, to win ability to read and write, if in the process the individual loses his own soul: loses his appreciation of things worth while, of the values to which these things are relative; if he loses desire to apply what he has learned and, above all, loses the ability to extract meaning from his future experiences as they occur? (Experience and Education, p. 49)

Progressive Education in the 1940s

Teaching with Our Doors Open: Professional Transparency as Acts of Resistance

Teaching with Our Doors Open: Professional Transparency as Acts of Resistance