politics

A Note on Nikki Haley, Slavery, and Teacher Professionalism

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Difficult For Whom: A Conversation about Conversations and Systems

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Where Contrition and Closure Go Hand-In-Hand

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What Gets Taught

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Big Educator Energy (Pt. 1)

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On This Insurrection, and The Next

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MLK’s Work Precedes Us And, With Resilience, Lives After [Medium]

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Politics Are Always At Play In Our Classrooms

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Major Key: What It Means To Have A Leader-ful, Not Leaderless, Movement

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New York City Elects Bill de Blasio for Mayor, But It’s Not Over

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Short Notes: What Is The Political Future for Teachers?

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Why Learning Math Is Political

Why Teachers Are Political [A Rant]

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This Writing Is Less of a Run, More Like a Dance

Unless They Don’t Want To Give Kids an Education [This Means War]

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The Education Boogey-Men

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Tearing The House Down pt. 2: Hands Up For Haiti

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At The End of the Day [The Letters Series]

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Dennis Kucinich on Why He Voted No to Health Care Pt. 2

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King Bloomberg and My Unrepentant Contradictions

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Just When Post-Racial Educators Thought It Was Safe

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Dear Barack Obama: A Letter from an Urban Math Teacher to His President

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Short Notes: The Imperfect Death

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Pa’lante Pa’lante

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Letters: No, Your Hips Aren’t Enough

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The True Power of Literacy (or Another Reason I’m Not Feeling Charter Schools)

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How’s That Postracial Thing Working Out For You?

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Success Is A Process, Not An Event

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It’s Pretty Much Your Fault

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Peace In The Middle East (2009 Edition)

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Short Notes: They Don’t Pay Me Enough To Accept Your Comments

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Somewhere Between War and Peace

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I Didn’t Vote

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Short Notes: A New Agenda

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Disagree Without Being Disagreeable

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Encima De Nuestros Espaldas (On Our Backs)

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Toasting the President

The House Negro

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From A Semi-Anarchist’s POV

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I Am A Community Organizer: The Genesis

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What Will It Take?

A Better Class of Criminal

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El Costo De La Vida (The Cost Of Life)

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The Politics of Access

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My Ballot or My Bullet

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Short Notes: Somewhere In The Middle

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El Niagara en Bicicleta (The Niagara on Bicycle)

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Bob and Weave

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Hooray Accountability …

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Toy Soldiers

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