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Three questions every PhD Candidate should ask themselves
PhD studies are, in many ways, like life as Kierkegaard described it: it must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards. When my department recently asked me to speak with current PhD candidates about my experience of researching and...
Post · May 29, 2025
Parent Activism in the Age of Foundation Budget Formulas
My daughter is losing her computer teacher to a budget cut. Well, maybe. The principal tells us that the teacher is okay with it. The district tells us that in fact there is no cut. But explanations ring hollow when you’re upset and looking for so...
Post · May 28, 2025
The Civic Negligence of Schools
I have been thinking lately about the civic responsibility – and negligence – of schools. Specifically, I have been thinking about the disservice schools (and the people who make decisions about curriculum in schools) have done to young people whe...
Post · May 28, 2025
The Rhetoric of Resegregation
The issue of school segregation – particularly, the trend toward re-segregation – is once again in the news in Boston, with a Boston Globe analysis finding that 60 percent of schools were “intensely segregated” (defined as at least 90 percent stud...
Post · May 27, 2025
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