Press and News

I've had various television appearances, newspaper articles, and published books. I've been featured in The New York Times, CNN, The Atlantic, NPR, and others. To contact me, please use the contact form provided here. Thank you!

Appearances

Books

This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and the Future of Education. Haymarket Books.

Teaching 2030: What We Must Do For Our Students And Our Public Schools – Now and In The Future by Barnett Berry and 12 members of the Teaching 2030 Team. Teachers College Press.

Featured In

The Teacher You Want To Be: Essays About Children, Learning, and Teaching by Matt Glover and Ellin Oliver Keene. Heinemann Publishing.

Keeping the Faith in Education by Ellie Roscher. Avenida Books. Chapter: Foreword.

Teacherpreneurs: Innovative Teachers Who Lead But Don’t Leave by Barnett Berry, Ann Byrd, and Alan Weider. Jossey-Bass.

Endorsed

We Don’t Need Another Hero: Struggle, Hope, and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling by Gregory Michie. Teachers College Press.

When Can You Trust the Experts: How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education by Daniel Willingham. Jossey-Bass.

In The News

Will Hillary Clinton's Education Policy Break From Obama's in a Huge Way?
Mother Jones

Books Teachers Share: José Luis Vilson and ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’
Mindshift KQED

Black Teachers Matter
Mother Jones

Will Trump and Charter Schools Be Another Scam? Just Look at Pal Carl Icahn's Lucrative School 'Charity'
AlterNet

How to Get More Men of Color Teaching in the Classroom
The Atlantic

Are White Parents The Only Ones Who Hate Standardized Testing?
Huffington Post

Educator and Activist
Syracuse University News

Beyond Integration: How Teachers Can Encourage Cross-Racial Friendships
nprEd

Race and the Standardized Testing Wars
New York Times

Five Favorite Reads For Your Professional Bookshelf
TeachingChannel

To Be Young, 'Gifted' And Black, It Helps To Have A Black Teacher
nprEd

New York City Tackles School Segregation
The American Prospect

The Legacy of Arne Duncan, ‘A Hero in the Education Business’
The Nation

Here’s What The Obama Administration’s New Guidelines On Tests In Schools Mean
ThinkProgress

The Biblioracle: To fix failing schools, ask teachers
Chicago Tribune

Where Are All the Black Male Teachers?
NEAToday

How Do We Raise the Quality of Teachers?
Wall Street Journal

5 Great Teachers On What Makes A Great Teacher
NPR

How Do You Make A Great Teacher?
Smithsonian Magazine

What's In Store for 2015 in Education?
The Guardian

Why We Need More Diverse Teachers
Fusion

Author, Activist Jose Vilson Shares His Thoughts on Public School System
LatinPost

Six Questions
Examiner

How "I Don't Get It" Is The First Step Towards Mastery
Virtual Conference

Teacher Spotlight
GOOD Magazine

Deserves A Better Audience (DABA) Award and Interview
Dangerously Irrelevant

The Master of Media
Xavier High School (my alma mater)

Other Recognition

One of Mashable’s 10 Rockstar Teachers

One of GOOD Magazine’s GOOD 100 for 2013

One of Education World’s Top 25 Blogs

One of Scholastic Instructor’s Top 20 Teacher Blogs of 2009

2007 Weblog Awards Nominee for Best Education Blog

Featured on

  • LiveStrong.com
  • Chalkbeat
  • New York Magazine Intelligencer
  • Chicago Sun-Times
  • Rethinking Schools
  • AllTop.com
  • MiBodegaOnline.com
  • Time Out New York

Archives

"Are We Doing Enough To Make Sure Our Kids Aren't Racist?"
CNN

"Helping NYC Implement the Common Core"
Education Funders Research Initiative

"How Jay-Z Can Help Us Remix Education"
Education Week

"What Teacher Leadership Looks Like for the New School Year"
Edutopia

"Rethinking How We Use Calculators"
Edutopia

"Engaging Teachers in Math"
Edutopia

"Why Mathematical Practices Matter as Much as the Content"
Edutopia

"Rethinking Conversations on Race Among Educators"
Edutopia

"Three Dos and Don’ts of Transformative Teacher Leadership"
Edutopia

"Engaging Students in Math"
Edutopia

"The Classroom and the Precinct, Accurately"
The Enemy

"If America's Serious About Appreciating Teachers, Here's What It Takes"
GOOD Magazine

"America Loves Celebrity Chefs, But Who Are Our Celebrity Teachers?"
GOOD Magazine

"Trayvon Martin and the Implications for Teacher Perceptions of Students"
Huffington Post

"On Why You Should Support Teachers Unions"
Huffington Post

"An Overlooked Difference Between Professional Athletes and Professional Teachers"
Huffington Post

"The Reason Why The Black Male 'Crisis' Is a Hoax"
Huffington Post

"Does Hip-Hop Really Belong in the Classroom?"
Huffington Post

"Why Black/Latino Male Teachers aren't as Effective in the Classroom... Yet"
Huffington Post

"Where the Hammer Meets the Pick"
Huffington Post

"The Homeroom Is A Home"
MiddleWeb

Testing Students for Grit Is Another Marker of School Inequity
New York Times

"It's Every Parent's Right"
New York Times

"Coding Opens Doors"
New York Times

"The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"
New York Times

"But the borders don’t look like the ones on the map, mami"
Ohio State University / Kirwan Institute - Race-Talk

"During Black History Month, helping students understand their role in history"
PBS Newshour

"Stealing Possible"
The Progressive

"Children Crossing The Border Matter, Too"
The Root