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We Must Not Be Defeated (Optimism In May)

May 18, 2016
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I Have An English Doppelganger! (feat. Mark Martin) [Video]

May 15, 2016
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Everything You Need To Know About Publishing My Book

May 11, 2016
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A Reflection on Raising New Voices (About These Guest Posts)

May 8, 2016
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The Danger of Coloring Outside The Lines (Guest Post)

May 1, 2016
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For Pale Folk by Pale Folk (A Letter from Michael Doyle) [Guest Post]

April 28, 2016
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Education Giveth, Education Taketh Away [Guest Post]

April 25, 2016
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Who Will Lead The Edu-Revolution? (Pulling The Race Card) [Guest Post]

April 21, 2016
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Drugs Can’t Get You High As This [Educate, Educate]

April 17, 2016
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What’s In It For Me? (On Male Teachers of Color) [Guest Post]

April 14, 2016
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What Does It Mean To Be A Public Intellectual In The Classroom? #AERA16

April 11, 2016

The #EduColor Movement Meets The National Board [Video]

April 8, 2016
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Watch Me Tear Down The House at Rutgers University [Video]

April 3, 2016
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Does Harlem Need Diddy or Educational Equity?

April 1, 2016
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The Plans of Policymakers and Professors Oft Go Awry

March 27, 2016
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NYCoRE 2016 and A Note on Educational Compliance

March 20, 2016
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A Great Big Expression of Happiness (On #TLConf2016)

March 16, 2016
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Measuring Grit and Children of Color [New York Times]

March 13, 2016
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Bernie Sanders and The Inclusive Vision for Public Schools #EduColor

March 10, 2016
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The One Thing I Don’t Do When I’m Assessing Students

March 6, 2016
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College and Career Whatever Have You

February 29, 2016

Listen To Me and My Favorite Songs [Rhymes and Reason]

February 26, 2016
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Real Solidarity In The Time of Education Reform

February 21, 2016
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Watch Dana Goldstein and Me Talk With Teachers at NJEA

February 18, 2016
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Schools on Trial And What Does Progress Mean?

February 17, 2016
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Justice Scalia, Affirmative Action, and Why Shame Is Not An Option

February 14, 2016
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Toni Morrison Speaks To Me About Racism [The Work]

February 11, 2016
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Why We Must Believe (Our Formation)

February 10, 2016
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The Beautiful Teacher Struggle

February 4, 2016
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When Two Or More Of Us Are Gathered (An EduCon Reflection)

February 3, 2016
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Design of a Decade: Moments From 10 Years Of Writing

January 27, 2016
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What Happens When My Student Curses At Me [Teaching Tolerance]

January 25, 2016
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What Do You Mean, Excessive Paperwork?

January 22, 2016
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Are You About That MLK Jr. Life?

January 18, 2016
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My Reaction to the President’s State of the Union Address

January 13, 2016
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My New Year’s Resolve

January 10, 2016
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These Feet Will Drag (A Poem)

January 3, 2016
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The Top JLV Posts of 2015 (According To You And Me)

December 30, 2015
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A List of Things I’ve Learned in 2015

December 28, 2015
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A Bit About The “End” of No Child Left Behind

December 20, 2015
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Hope and the Teacher

December 16, 2015
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The Dea(r)th of Opinions [TFA and Writing As A Whole]

December 13, 2015
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The Students Always Do That

December 8, 2015
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Through The Wire [This Is Still Not A Test]

December 3, 2015
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Bad Teacherist [Reading Roxane Gay]

November 29, 2015
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Thankful For You [Luz and Ale]

November 27, 2015
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I’m Not Racist, But My Kid’s Not Going There [On Segregation]

November 24, 2015
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A Not-Review of More Than A Score [Edu-Activated]

November 22, 2015
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How I Got Over [College Activism Is A Must]

November 19, 2015
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I Saw A Generation of Educators Destroyed By Silence In Tragedy [Howl Again]

November 15, 2015