education

Education is Bigger than Politics (A Lesson from my Year in China)

Having been in China just 10 days, it was funny how the detail of teaching English–my vehicle for coming out to[…]

I recently filled in for a 3rd grade teacher at a St. Paul, Minnesota school. Her colleague, the other 3rd[…]

The following is a description of my first day at my village school along with photographs gathered throughout my time[…]

I work for a school district, so it seems odd for me to ask such a question. Then again, one[…]

Part one was about the hoopla; this post is about the nuts and bolts of the student struggles in North[…]

I walked into the class knowing that it would be a little tougher than other places I taught. I based[…]

When I was in grade school, Mr. Dexter, the bus mechanic, gave a speech to us kids about proper bus[…]

As a substitute teacher you’d expect I get to wear a few different hats and teach students of all ages.[…]

I suppose every state in the U.S. would be guilty of creating laws that ended up biting them. Or perhaps[…]

New Plateaus is about interesting people, places, and ideas. Sometimes we’re lucky enough to get it all of this in[…]