Category: Wisdom
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Is there anything to be learned from what is about to happen in California? While the nation struggles to answer what comes next for public education, California has a chance to do something extraordinary: stop waiting for the future and start creating it. Several years ago, while serving as dean of the University of Kentucky…
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One of the most important things we can do as scholars is help the next generation navigate the academic journey. Today, I’m joining Dr. Cheryl E. Matias from the University of San Diego for a conversation hosted by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division K on Navigating the Academic Job Market. Having served as…
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I regret to inform you that… one day, every one of us is going to retire. Our titles will disappear from directories. Our offices will belong to someone else. The meetings will continue without us, and new humans (or robots) will make decisions that once belonged to us. Eventually, the organizations to which we devoted…
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An image goes viral. The community is outraged. Students are disciplined. Statements are issued. Eventually, the headlines move on. But we should ask a bigger question: What did anyone learn? That is the question after four students at San Marcos High School in Santa Barbara were shown recreating an AI image of young Black boys…
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Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay about her daughter’s education is heartbreaking because it poses a question almost every parent understands: Did I make the right choice for my child? Hannah-Jones made the choice more publicly and politically than most. A decade ago, she and her husband sent their daughter, Najya, to a predominantly Black, high-poverty public school…
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