An Open Letter To The Present and Future President Obama [2012 and Beyond]
10³ (My 1,000th Post and Running)
Top 10 List Of Things To Do For NYC Teachers Going To Work On Friday
So Much On My Mind That I Can’t Recline [On Hurricane Sandy]
Wherever The DREAM May Lead Us [An Education For All]
Why Learning Math Is Political
The Clappety-Clap Bullshit [On Character Education]
The Power of We: In The Memory of Malala Yousafzai [On Thinking Globally] #BAD12
The School To Prison Pipeline From An Educator’s Perspective [Interview]
AP: Jay-Z Signs Math Educator Jovan Miles to Roc Nation
On Stuyvesant High School and Having One Cocoa Puff In A Bowl of Milk [Why We Write]
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On Junot Diaz, The Kennedy Center and Affirmative Action [Latino History Series]
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The Examiner Examines … Me (On Writing about Education) [Why We Write]
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Charter School Teachers Vs. Public School Teachers (Education Nation) [Why We Write]
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Arizona Bars Children From Learning About Themselves (The Librotraficante) [Why We Write Series]
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Some Educators Love The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
The Beautiful Struggle [Society’s Fair Contract for Educators]
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A New, Improved Me. Both Me’s.
Shalom, Shalom, Because It Means Peace [A Thought for Ms. Waldman]
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On Rape [Where An Educator Stands]
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The New York Times and Why Adding More Educators To Your Panel Matters
Nas, Lil’ Wayne, and Adolf Hitler: A Rap and Education Memo
Sharing Sundays: A Renee Moore and Jesse Turner Sighting
Where My Fatherhood Comes From [It Turned Into a Poem]
Our Children: Arrested Developments
Parent Trigger And Why We Need To Talk [Let’s Be A Solution]
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Dear Carmelo Anthony, Because It’s That Necessary [From a Knicks Fan]
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7,000 Children Left Behind
Theatricality And Deception, Powerful Agents For The Uninitiated
It’s Just Different [The Three Vilsons]
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Coalition Matters [featuring Bayard Rustin]
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A Letter About My View on the Common Core Learning Standards [Because “Shut Up” Isn’t Clear Enough]
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The Latino Namesake
Heroes Made, Not Exactly Born [on Frank Ocean & Malcolm X]
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Supersonic
Bloomberg Is The System
What Rodney King Meant To Me
For The Person That I Do Have
You May Say I’m a DREAMer [Where We Belong]
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Recapturing Manhood for Young Men of Color [Stopping Stop-And-Frisk]
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Leaving Things Up To God: On Community Activism and Education [#NN12 Reflection]
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No Church In The Wild
Provoked
Let’s Agree on This: Bring The Troops Home
A Whole Month Left (A Freewrite)
Don’t Talk To Me About Personal Responsibility If …
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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