Category: Wisdom
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Leaving UT-Austin for a full professor position at California State University Sacramento was a big life change in 2014. In my new role as Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership I sit on the leadership team of the College. As a result, I am often a sponge for operational information. I was struck by two…
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As a former high school English teacher in two large, urban school districts, I completely understand how educators, parents and policymakers who are wrestling each day with the most pressing issues facing public education — standardized testing, the effects of poverty on learning, opportunity gaps — might be a bit impatient with educational theory and…
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How can you be more policy relevant than Kim Kardashian? This question and much much more was discussed in the Presidential session Career Threats and Opportunities: What Is the Role of Social Media in Public Scholarship? at AERA 2016. Diane Ravitch, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Nolan Cabrera, Rick Hess and Julian Vasquez Heilig discussed social media approaches that can democratize…
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“You may have thought you were going to discourage us, but instead you have encouraged us. The more you push us back, the more we will fight to go forward. The more you try to oppress us, the more you will inspire us.” No one exemplifies this movement better than the Rev. Dr. William J.…
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20,000 people are talking education this weekend in Washington D.C. If you are interested in student success, attending the AERA conference each year is a MUST. The conference is April 8-12 in DC. This year the conference theme is public scholarship. What is AERA? From the website: The American Educational Research Association (AERA), founded in 1916, is…
Cloaking Inequity 
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