Leadership High School is not slated to close
Even though my students read seven books, wrote 14 essays, and averaged 10 hours of homework a week this semester (in my class alone), I work at a failing schoo...
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When technology in schools goes too far
This morning, I read a scathing article in The New York Times that investigated K12, the nation’s largest for-profit online education provider. It’...
Now I know why I’ve never written a book
Like many people, I like the idea of writing rather than actually writing. I’m finishing up a 15-page research paper for one of my Library Science classe...
The importance of mentoring
A recent report on NBC Nightly News (see below, after a 30-second commercial) features SPARK, a mentoring program that claims that getting middle schoolers con...
My students are afraid of the library
San Francisco has an excellent public library system. Too bad my students never go. It’s not because of what you think — that they don’t like...