Sparking the evolution of education choice
“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.” — Macbeth, Shakespeare Our national fuddle over the role of government (public?) schools during the pandemic is yet another throwback to the days of their inception in the 1840s. Their founders saw these conscriptive institutions as a mechanism for control and enlightenment of the[Read More…]
Editor’s note: In this commentary, Jawan Brown-Alexander, Chief of Schools for New Schools for New Orleans, proposes that it’s possible to take what has been learned from the coronavirus pandemic and use it to reimagine what schools could look like in two, five or even 15 years. The piece originally[Read More…]
In high school, I didn’t ask questions in class. What if they laughed at me? What if I looked stupid? These feelings of inadequacy often caused me to miss valuable information during instruction. Other times, I didn’t know what to ask and it was easier to pretend that I understood.[Read More…]
