Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Welcome to our advice column! Today we’re helping a teacher who’s less than excited about teaching a former student. We’re also helping a teacher who is trying to support trans and gender non-conforming students at her Christian school. See what our writers have […]
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First They Came For “CRT,” Now They’re After “Gender Ideology”
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Christopher Rufo, the man primarily responsible for leading the conservative attack on antiracist education, is now coming for gender equity. On Wednesday, he published Sexual Liberation in Public Schools, the first in a new “investigative” series on gender. It focuses […]
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Raising Boys' Achievement Involves More Male Teachers
It’s no shock to any reader – teacher or parent – to learn that boys are not just falling behind, they’re sinking. In the middle school where I teach, of our nearly 1,100 students, roughly 80% of the special education students are male. More than 2/3 of the students failing classes are male. More than […]