Instead, help them channel their energy into productive tasks. This year’s end-of-year paper purge in my middle school office revealed a startling pattern in my…
I periodically revisit this topic. The impetus is that I continue being asked what I think about charter schools, the asker usually expecting a for…
University of Georgia education professor Peter Smagorinsky wrote a piece last year about a promising young teacher who chose to leave education. She has now…
Video by The Atlantic “Human beings are tribal,” says Amy Chua, Professor of Law at Yale Law School. “We’re hardwired that way. We need to belong…
A letter to the editor of The Marin Independent Journal dated December 28 from Conn Hickey, Treasurer, Ross Valley Charter. In the IJ editorial of…
We are living through a climate change in politics. Bigotry, bullying, mendacity, vulgarity — everything emitted by the tweets of President Trump and amplified by…
The subreddit Change My View is built on the proposition that we’ve at least got to listen to people we disagree with. Imagine a place…
A mobile office structure will be set up at White Hill Middle School in Fairfax to accommodate special education classes for the Ross Valley Charter…
Can unions continue to criticize charter schools while wooing charter teachers? A dispute over pay and class size in Chicago boiled over into the nation’s…
State Assemblyman Marc Levine got an earful recently from critics of the charter school in the Ross Valley School District. By Marin IJ Editorial Board They…