Articles Chris Christie's Wagging Finger Proves Alignment of Teachers' and Womens' Rights The facts are clear: 85 percent of K-12 teachers are women and 80 percent of our government officials are men.José VilsonNov 06, 2013
Articles Newsflash to Congress: You Shut Down the Government, But You Haven't Been Working Anyway This country's vision is seriously flawed for effective government when the least of us have a better work ethic than our representatives.José VilsonOct 04, 2013
Articles Want to Make Education Better? Send Policymakers Back to School The disconnect between policy and practice is so palpable, one has to wonder if these policies are made for children or in spite of them.José VilsonSep 06, 2013
Articles C'mon Mayor Bloomberg, Let's Stop and Frisk Some Test Scores Just as NYC police found in most stop-and-frisk cases, when you analyze standardized test scores, there's nothing there.José VilsonAug 15, 2013
Articles When Teachers Run Into Education Reformers That Don't Really 'Stand For Children' Sometimes teachers run into education reformers who say they stand for children, but whose policies are actually hurting kids and destroying schools.José VilsonAug 03, 2013
Articles 10 Things Every Adult Should Do After The Trayvon Martin Tragedy Here are some things anyone can do to help our students do better both academically and socio-emotionallyJosé VilsonJul 26, 2013
Articles The Fate of Women is Tied to Teachers, Are We Hearing Their Voices? It's not that men can't contribute their voices to the education conversation, but perhaps women should be the ones we're listening to.José VilsonJul 13, 2013
Articles Why We Need Schools To Uplift Their Communities Now More Than Ever At this point, it's not enough to just say "no" to reforms. We also need to have alternative solutions for our children.José VilsonMay 27, 2013
Articles If America's Serious About Appreciating Teachers, Here's What it Takes The current tenor of our national conversation about education is a reminder of the dire straits the teaching profession is in.José VilsonMay 09, 2013
Articles Born To Do This Sh*t: Bringing Passion Into the Classroom They heard I love teaching, and they can see it in my eyes.José VilsonMay 03, 2013
Articles An Open Letter From The Trenches: To Education Activists, Friends, and Haters Education activists have to recognize that anger is a primary means to an end, not the end itself.José VilsonApr 15, 2013
Articles Attention Schools: You Are Now Entering Standardized Testing Mode Teachers become cobweb sweepers, still learning to balance between "What do you MEAN you don’t remember this?" and "Ohyougotitgoodletsmoveon."José VilsonApr 07, 2013
Articles What Will John Legend's Education Reform Legacy Be? His legend in education will show a man who supports kids bubbling in scan-ready sheets rather than notes for the keys to their own lives.José VilsonMar 18, 2013
Articles 'Teacher Leadership' Has Become a Buzzword, But What Does That Mean? If school systems don't do a better job of defining teacher leadership, then we should recognize that no one will want to take on teacher leadership.José VilsonMar 02, 2013
Articles The Only Education Reform That Matters: Love A real school for children puts forth love in action, even when the system disallows those emotions.José VilsonFeb 19, 2013