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Journey For Justice – The People Speak Through Letters Journey For Justice – Suburban Parent Elizabeth Kunzier Speaks Journey For Justice – Letter From Betsy L. Angert, Educator To Send A Reflection Address It To… Department [...]

Letter From Elizabeth Kunzier, Suburban Parent To: Department of Education Elizabeth M. Williamson, Northeast Communications Director My name is Elizabeth Kunzier and I participated in the Journey for Justice hearings yesterday at the Dept of Education. You gave me your [...]

The new LLiving in Dialogue launched in August of 2014. It is a completely independent publication, edited by retired educator Anthony Cody. Its purpose is to foster discussion around critical issues related to public education in the United States and the world. The original [...]

This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk about me, about MIT, and [...]

By Darnell L. Moore | Originally Published The Feminist Wire. September 12, 2012 “Darnell, you can’t write.” I was an eighth-grade student at Morgan Village Middle School in Camden, New Jersey, when you, my Language Arts instructor, reprimanded me in front of my classmates and uttered [...]

Jada Williams, a 13-year-old student at Rochester's School No. 3, did as all students are asked to do, she diligently approached an additional, optional assignment. She read the RocRead-assigned book, The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass. Jada reflected. Then she [...]

Schools were originally intended to build the innate desire to dream. The aim has not died, but adult realities set in. Rules and regulations that restrain youthful minds are imposed. Even when students are given the opportunity to express themselves much is prescribed. Few children [...]

Deborah Meier is a senior scholar at NYU’s Steinhardt School, and Board member of the Coalition of Essential Schools, FairTest, SOS and Dissent and The Nation magazines. She spent 45 years working in K-12th grade public schools in New York City (East Harlem) and [...]

Bridging Differences features dialogues between Deborah Meier and other education thinkers. For years, Deborah Meir and the former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch verbally sparred and also found similarities in their divergent points of view. Deborah Meier is a visionary teacher, author, and [...]