As a high school English teacher, it was nothing for me to grade 120 five-paragraph essays every week. If it was a particularly rigorous unit, you find me wading through five to seven-page literary analysis in my Advanced Placement Literature class. If I was quick, I could have the papers graded within a two-week period. […]
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Ask The Educator’s Room: How do I deal with my horrid co-teacher?
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Welcome to The Educator’s Room advice column for teachers! Today we’re helping a teacher dealing with the aftermath of their daughter’s sleepover. We’re also helping a teacher who’s trying to survive the rest of the school year with a bad co-teacher. See what […]
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We Still Need Affirmative Action
Race, Merit, College Admissions, and the Long Ghost of San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez. Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! On October 31, 2022, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows […]
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Ask The Educator’s Room: What do I say to students about a coworker’s DUI?
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Welcome to The Educator’s Room advice column for teachers! Today we’re helping a teacher who’s having trouble with the other adult in their classroom. We’re also helping a teacher who’s colleague got arrested for a DUI. See what our writers have to say, […]
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One Team, Separate Experiences
The Educator’s Room Reviews WNYC’s “Keeping Score” Podcast Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Keeping Score is a brand new 4-part series from WNYC Studios and The Bell. The series follows the real students of one Brooklyn high school building that houses four separate schools and recently integrated their athletic […]
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Suddenly Teammates After a Decade of Division
The Educator’s Room Reviews WNYC’s “Keeping Score” Podcast Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Keeping Score is a brand new 4-part series from WNYC Studios and The Bell. The series follows the real students of one Brooklyn high school building that houses four separate schools and […]
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A Conversation With My Deaf Quadrilingual Student
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! In the summer of 2018 I learned that I would be meeting my first deaf[i] student in my American Sign Language (ASL) Class. After a decade of teaching ASL the majority of my students were hearing students. Only a […]
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Can Sports Heal a Segregated School?
The Educator’s Room Reviews WNYC’s “Keeping Score” Podcast Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Keeping Score is a brand new 4-part series from WNYC Studios and The Bell. The series follows the real students of one Brooklyn high school building that houses four separate schools and […]