Most teachers I ask say no. It doesn’t matter if students are wealthy, middle class or poor, they say. Then I ask other questions: Does what’s happening in the world affect the schoolhouse? Social media? Prejudice? Teachers always answer yes to these questions. Which brings us back to social class. Social class is a powerful force Read More
So you got the funding. Terrific. Now to find 30 middle school students who want to spend six weeks in the Summer writing poetry on campus. No, you said in the proposal that you’d get 40 students. And that they’d be from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM with a B average in math. Doesn’t matter how Read More