When the powers that be talk about sending kids to war, they aren’t talking about their kids. So, whose kids are they talking about, and where do those kids come from? I teach senior English at an urban high school in upstate New York. The poverty rate here is high. There are no Fortunate Sons […]
Brian Huba
Brian Huba has placed op-eds in The Hill, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Common Dreams, the Democrat & Chronicle, New York's Journal News, the Syracuse-Post Standard, the NY Daily News, the Albany Times Union, and the Utica Observer-Dispatch. Brian teaches 12th-grade English in Upstate New York.
Posted inHow to Fix Education
Restroom Etiquette for Employees at a Public or Private School
Restroom etiquette at a public (or private) school. We don’t discuss the issue enough. But we should, as it directly affects every gainfully-employed educator. Regardless of what type of school you work at, or what your school’s restroom situation is, there is likely a bit of intra-staff strife about proper conduct in the communal loo. […]
Posted inInstruction & Curriculum
Is Public Education better off now than four years ago? The answer is complicated.
The looming presidential election this fall provides the kismet to see our last four years through the standard “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” while posing that same question to ourselves as public educators: Am I, as a teacher in America, better off now than I was four years ago? […]