I work in education not because I believe it has solutions to offer, or because young people need to be job-ready, or because there is a canon of knowledge students must master. I am in education because it is where institutional failure has difficulty hiding. Education is not separate from the larger system. It is [...]
Next academic year’s incoming high school class will be the first to graduate on the other side of 2030. This matters because the year carries an unusual symbolic weight, perhaps greater than any other date in lived memory, even 2000. 2030. It is, in one sense, an arbitrary marker, a new decade in the Common [...]
This article was published on IntrepidEd News on 4 Jan 2022. I can’t keep track of how many conversations I have had where at some point my counterpart declared that something or other I’ve proposed “will never happen because…” I’m not suggesting I’m some kind of soothsayer or that I’m the holder of Truth. I [...]
Coconut Thinking 