Ten-year-old Gavin Williams is a lively and affectionate youngster who loves to visit museums, experiment with computer-coding and plunge into…
On March 27th, two weeks ago last Friday, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the…
My husband and I have four children. Our three oldest are what we in the special needs community call “neuro-typical”…
We barely survived my son Jonah’s adolescence. One evening in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station he pushed me so hard I…
Newsflash: insiders tell me that there has been no improvement within New Jersey’s floundering Department of Education. In an accidental…
(A different version of this piece appeared earlier this month at Education Post.) Let’s just call her Betsy DeVoid. Our…
It’s a common complaint among those who look down their collective nose at public charter schools: they don’t serve their…
My friends and colleagues at Education Post, Lane Wright and Ikhlas Saleem, asked me to join them on their Voices4ED…
I’m detecting a trend. Recently, The Atlantic ran a piece that catalogues the Trump administration’s disregard of civil rights protections for Americans…
Trump's Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, in what Chalkbeat calls "some of her most expansive public remarks since taking over the department last…