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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
Our Collective Responsibility for School Integration
In his historical portrait of federal, state, and local efforts to integrate schools, James Ryan, former law professor at the University of Virginia and current dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), boiled down the essential mes...
Post · May 27, 2025
Living in a Time of Two Plagues
As the U.S. death toll from Covid-19 approached 100,000—the largest country total in the world—the New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday edition to cataloging the lives of 1,000 people who had died. Read together, the one-line obituaries...
Post · May 25, 2025
Testimony Before the Boston School Committee
The following comments were delivered, via Zoom, during a meeting of the Boston School Committee on a proposal to update the admissions criteria for "exam schools" in the Boston Public Schools.
My name is James Noonan, assistant professor of educ...
Post · May 25, 2025
What We Learned in the Pandemic
The decision by the Commissioner of Education, Jeff Riley, to deny approval of remote learning days at the Curley K-8 School in Boston seems part of a determined plan by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to move forward at all c...
Post · May 25, 2025
Self-Care and Open Water Swimming #WhyISwim
In a previous post, I emphasised the importance of self-care. Ironically, that very day, a tempting message arrived: ‘Anyone up for a swim this afternoon?’ It was a clear sign I needed to embrace my own advice.
The empowering hashtag #whyisign c...
Post · May 25, 2025
Navigating the Storm: Personal Challenges, the Zeigarnik Effect, and Your PhD Journey
We've all experienced that mental itch, the nagging feeling of an incomplete task. Psychology calls this the Zeigarnik Effect: unfinished business stays present in our minds (more can be read about it here). It's why we remember that open loop, t...
Post · May 25, 2025
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