On the State of Education, Part 5: Schooling as Social Justice
“It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime.
What better place than here, what better time than now?”
- Rage Against the Machine, “Guerilla Radio”
On the State of Education, Part 4: Shifting Perspectives
“Each second we live is a new and unique moment in the universe, a moment that never was before and never will be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two make four and that Paris in the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them, ‘Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the world there is no other child exactly like you.’
We all must work to make a world worthy of its children…”
- Pablo Casals
On the State of Education, Part 3: Dollars, but Not Much Sense
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
– The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
On the State of Education, Part 2: Big Lies
Terms like zero-tolerance and lock-down
Aging out, if you ask me, does not sound like education
But I suppose that's a 'cause and effect'
When the city spends more on incarceration.
- J-Live, “Brooklyn Public, Part 1”
On the State of Education, Part 1: The Price of Admission
“All I got is dreams, nobody else believes,
nobody else can see, nobody else but me.”
- Jay-Z, “History”
Components of a Growth Mindset
“Love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort,
and keep on learning.”
– Carol Dweck
Not “Just an Athlete”
“Don’t it always seem to go,
that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.”
-Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”