Culture

Opinion: I am a coal miner’s daughter and a West Virginia teacher. Here’s why I’m on strike.

2018-03-02

You simply cannot understand the intensity of a labor strike until you actually live through it. The long travels to the Capitol, cellphone messages by the dozens every minute, the pressure of represe

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Opinion: I’ve asked hundreds of students if they would feel safer if I was armed. Not one has said yes

2018-02-23

Editor’s note: In a listening session with survivors of gun violence at the White House this week, President Donald Trump said he’d be open to considering a proposal to arm school employees who have e

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Opinion: A student’s obituary should never say ‘gunned down while studying for chemistry’

2018-02-16

Editor’s note: Today’s Teachers’ Lounge features several perspectives by educators on the issue of school shootings in the U.S. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow by Anthony Lodato, English teacher

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Opinion: I will not pledge allegiance until America does better

2018-02-05

Editor’s note: While the national debate involving NFL players “taking a knee” during the national anthem may have quieted since November, it has not gone away altogether. In his State of the Union ad

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Opinion: ‘Freedom’ is why I ask my students to stand for the Pledge

2018-02-05

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Opinion: The teacher’s sharing economy gave me work-life balance

2018-01-10

During my first few years in the classroom, I commuted and worked 10-hour days before arriving home where I continued to grade papers and plan lessons for several more hours. On more than one occasion

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Don’t assume that every student had a fun or warm holiday break

2017-12-29

One of my middle school students was recently sent to me after displaying erratic behavior in class. His teachers had tried to console him and figure out the cause of his outburst. After speaking with

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Teaching kids about Thanksgiving or Columbus? They deserve the real story

2017-11-15

In the season four premiere of ABC’s hit sitcom “Black-ish,” Dre, a charismatic dad played by Anthony Anderson, is distraught over his children’s performance in a school play about Christopher Columbu

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Column: Why educators still need to talk about 9/11 — and Islamophobia

2017-09-11

Editor’s note: We’re resurfacing this column from educator Rusul Alrubail this week for the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks. I was in 10th grade living in Toronto when 9/11 happened. We wer

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Column: Why we shouldn’t push students to specialize in STEM too early

2017-09-05

This fall, as I have for nearly 29 years as an educator and academic advisor, I’ll face freshmen engineering students who are certain of what they’re going to do with the rest of their lives. Then the

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Column: How I use George Washington to make kids care about ‘fake news’

2017-07-25

Amid the surge of fake news, I am more serious than ever about my role as a history and journalism teacher to foster students’ media literacy. By fake news, I don’t mean stories a reader objects to be

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Column: How bringing comics into the classroom made me love teaching again

2017-05-08

Most teachers would agree that teaching is one of the most exhausting jobs to love. Between meeting the individual needs of our students, keeping up with the latest initiatives and completing the day-

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