A letter from a teacher I am a teacher at an elementary school in East Oakland, California. East Oakland may only be 10 minutes from downtown, but it is like traveling through a vortex – from clean streets to smoldering piles of garbage, from new developments to...
The Crisis in Education The problems in education can’t be solved within a single classroom or school. Education in every society serves to maintain the existing order and to socialize young people to function within it. That means educating children to function in...
This system has offered us two choices: return to school in the middle of a pandemic, with conditions as they were before, or continue distance learning with conditions as they are now. Before Covid-19, the average fourth grade class in California had 27 students....
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, despite having plenty of money, has used the pandemic as an excuse to make huge cuts and layoffs to staff. Rutgers has an endowment totaling $1.467 billion dollars and about $650 million in annual research grants. In...
Students, teachers and parents this fall are facing the consequences of our nation’s leaders’ inability and unwillingness to control the coronavirus pandemic. For students, long hours are spent on Zoom, Webex, or some other online conferencing app, without the human...
