Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Regardless of your opinions on school choice and voucher programs, the conversation around dismantling public education cannot ignore their role. Partly a product of a charter school myself (and later a public school teacher), I take the privatization of […]
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Why Are Teachers Leaving? Here’s What They Told Us
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Starting in 2020, as the COVID pandemic upended education, teachers began to leave the classroom, citing burnout, low pay, and student behavior. However, how much are teachers allowed to be allowed to give unabashed reasons on how they leave. […]
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The Dismantling of Public Education Part 2: Teacher Attrition Must Be Addressed
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! It is hard to talk about education these days without broaching the subject of the teacher shortage. While the idea of a teacher shortage has been a looming concern for years in some states, this time it is a […]
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Where Are All the Black Mermaids? How Afro-futurism and Black Joy Saved my Black History Month
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Inevitably, as we ring in the new year, teachers begin to pull out their tried and true Black History lessons. Our shortest month begins to fill up with Jackie Robinson and Langston Hughes coloring packets, Civil Rights Icon research […]
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The Dismantling of Public Education Part 1: The Pandemic
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! In March of 2020, when schools suddenly closed their doors with no idea of what the rest of the school year (or three for that matter) would look like, none of us could have predicted the immense impact on […]
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We’re in the Midst of the Dismantling of Public Education: Episode 1
You may have noticed that education has truly become a topic at the forefront of many political conversations over the past few years. So, of course, you would think this would mean politicians would be discussing funding, impactful reform, and how to retain teachers. But, unfortunately, those topics are not at the top of the agenda-at least not in the way we hoped.
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Students Deserve the Right to Fail
Jonah Simcha Chaim Muskat-Brown, MSW The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines the word failure in 3 ways: A lack of success in some effort; A situation or occurrence in which something does not work as it should; An occurrence in which someone does not do something that should be done. A quick Google search revealed other […]
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Teacher Pay Equity: I Could Afford to Stay in Education Because I Had a Partner Who Financially Supports Me
Sometimes I forget that I have spent my entire adulthood in a two-income household.