Jose

Provoked

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Let’s Agree on This: Bring The Troops Home

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A Whole Month Left (A Freewrite)

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Don’t Talk To Me About Personal Responsibility If …

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The Normalcy of School Segregation [It Matters If You’re Black Or White]

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I Don’t Write For Your F**king Approval [Channeling Kobe Bryant]

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Amber Cabral Makes Race Palpable

Privilege and My First and Only Meeting with Bobby Seale

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On Leaked E-Mails and The Eventual Uproar [Where I Call Joel Klein a Pirate]

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Four Months of Awesome [On Alejandro]

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I Went Through Hell, So I’m Expecting Heaven [On Speaking Up Again]

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Kenneth Cole and Our Intelligent Designs

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Doing My Part for High School Readiness

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A Few Secrets About My Appearance at TEDxNYED

The 5-Minute Break

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An Ode To The Big Tests

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When Keeping It Real Goes Awry

The Dreamer, The Believer [The Race Man Cometh]

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On Women and Teacher Voice [Video + Commentary]

900 Posts, Because the Last 100 Didn’t Make It Easy

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All Black Everything [Our Professional Selves]

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For The Love of Self, Get Yourself Checked Out

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The Lion Sleeps Tonight

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Be Like Me: Just Write Five Different Blog Starters and Don’t Hit Publish

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Why Teachers Are Political [A Rant]

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Teachers Teach and Do The World Good [GOOD Magazine]

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My Friends, The Cops

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Why The New York Times Is Asking Me To Validate Myself

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Comments To That Snoop Dogg Article You Didn’t See

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Lost Article: How Snoop Dogg Can Help You Out Of The Edu-Dogghouse

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Occupy V-Day: The Greatest Love Of All

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Black History Month: Documenting Our Bones, Our Blood, Our Lives [Listen]

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Eww. Seriously. That Is So Gross. (Education Reform Put To The Test)

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Kick In The Door, Wavin’ The 44 [On Writing To Kick Ass]

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Don’t Talk To Me About The Good Old Days

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Simon Says Get The Fuck Up

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A Dozen of One, a Half Dozen of the Other [On Parenting and Teaching]

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But First Him, Always Him

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A Short Note on Victor Cruz and Catching Opportunity

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I’m Beamin’ [I Get My Energy From My Inner G]

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Uncensored: A Lost Article about the Save Our Schools March

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2011 Unpublished GQ Interview for Man of the Year [Mr. Vilson vs. Jose Part 3]

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Future (Why My Family Thinks I Look Stressed Even When I Tend To Disagree)

No One Knows What It Means, But It’s Provocative, It Gets The People Going

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Fatherhood In Patterns

A Repertoire for the Imperfect

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Above and Beyond

That’s 21 of Your Validators Ate Up At The Same Time

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Such Dummies, or Why I Didn’t Have To Decode Jay-Z Like Y’all Did

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I Wouldn’t Take That Shit

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