Category: equity in school
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Leveled Reading Instruction Destroys Equity
Teaching students to read with instructional level reading groups keeps marginalized students marginalized. The system must be changed.
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Be BOLD: Equity Required for High Achievement
Over the past year I have written multiple times about how critical equity is for ensuring all of our children master rigorous state standards. It is not something to be put on the back burner for more favorable times. As parents we all want our children to succeed on state standards and go beyond that…
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Equity: Practice of Love and Inclusion
A rigorous education that ensures children at least master state standards is the expectation for every child in the United States. Our educational system in the United States has struggled since its very beginnings to include all children in a rigorous education. However, despite this struggle, dedicated educators and parents have never given up on…
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Science of Reading: Will We Ever Learn?
States and school districts are ‘adopting the Science of Reading’ (Schwartz, 2025) as the basis of their early reading programs while critics, such as this recent opinion in the Wall Street Journal, are already saying it doesn’t work despite the incredible results Mississippi schools have achieved using their adopted Science of Reading program. Is this…
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Equity is Crucial for Student Success
Equity in schools means providing every student with whatever they need to succeed; to master their state standards. This concept requires understanding that some students will need more because they start further back from what the standards require than others. Every student has hurdles to learning, however, some have many more hurdles than others. It…
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A Teacher Sparks the Courage of a School District
In my previous post, I asked if you are indicted by or changing our education system. Are you just going along with a system that marginalizes some groups of people or are you standing up for and pushing to make change. In our current political environment, it takes courage to stand up for marginalized students.…
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Indicted or Changing the System?
What do you do when you live in a country that continues to marginalize people, including the very children you are working to serve, to educate? What do you do when this system rachets up its effort to marginalize people rather than take actions to improve the lives of marginalized people? I was thinking about…
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Equity is Acting Humanely
Some people in today’s political discourse treat equity like a dirty word. Something to be avoided. They claim that equity gives an unfair advantage to some people over others and therefore we must get rid of equity. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Equity is doing whatever it takes to ensure everyone reaches a…
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Educators Standing Up for All Students
In these turbulent times educators are prevailing over chaos and working relentlessly to ensure all students are educated to high levels. We celebrate them for their fearless and tireless commitment to their students. The past three months have been more chaotic for educators than normal. Educators face challenges each day as they work to ensure…
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What We Lose When the Department of Education is Eliminated
The chaos in Washington DC regarding what schools should do is being compounded. First DEI was declared a threat that needed to be eradicated. Now efforts are focused on eliminating the US Department of Education. Should we care about the US Department of Education? Is it useful? Is it helpful to the goal of educating…