This is What Happens When Intelligence Dies

Grapevine High School senior Anjali Datta holds the highest grade-point average of the 471 students graduating from Grapevine High School this year.
In fact, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD officials believe her GPA of 5.898 may be the highest in the high school’s history.
It’s still not enough to make her the valedictorian, which brings a one-year college scholarship from [...]

What Exactly is ‘Highly Qualified’?

I had the following conversation with a friend (who is not a teacher) over dinner tonight. He has a MFA and MS in American Lit. and is one of the brightest men that I know. He has been trying to figure out if teaching would be his next step.

Friend: TFA is known for bringing in [...]

In Case You Thought I Was Exaggerating….

Posted by avoiceinthewilderness
I was a little nervous about publishing my last post, “Did You Get the Memo?” because I was afraid that it tackled the often unspoken subject of the lack of expectations that some educators have for inner city children.
And then a friend sent me the following story. I’m still in shock over [...]

Did You Get The Memo?

Posted by avoiceinthewilderness
I was teaching summer school classes in a voluntary program for high school children. My class was playing Jeopardy to review some of the concepts we had been learning. The game was heating up; the score was really close. In retrospect, I should have calmed the kids down a bit, but I [...]