Education

DEI and Getting Back on Track

Dialogue with Dignity I’ve been thinking about issues of racial justice since I was a teenager. I’m not claiming to…

2 months ago

Wayward and The Turning Tide

“That woman is pursued by demons,” Wally Brigley, the Board chair, declared as he settled into Tim Endibel’s office, plonked…

3 months ago

The #1970 Club: Language and Learning

The #1970 Club is starting tomorrow (October 14th) and I'm prepared with some reading and re-reading.  1970 offers a rich…

6 months ago

Meaning Loss

In Meaning Loss, Sanje Ratnavale has written a practical and timely contribution to an important debate that all schools should…

7 months ago

The Silence of the Associations

It has been nearly four months since the publication of the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and…

8 months ago

The Affair of the Chocolate Teapot

Midge Hazelbrow, the indomitable co-head of Wayward St. Etheldreda's Academy, took herself for a brisk constitutional down Riverside Drive to…

1 year ago

Best Practices, Reading Wars, and Eruption at Wayward

Before the eruption, it was a typical senior leadership meeting at Wayward. Head of School, Tim Endibel, was talking. On…

1 year ago

Words Matter

When I taught fourth and fifth grade at a school that didn't assign grades, the topic occasionally came up among…

1 year ago

Wings of Wax, Feet of Clay

When Claudine Gay resigned as President of Harvard this week the gloating by some conservative activists and commentators was unappealing…

1 year ago

Personal Update. And Breaking News

My Wittgenstein project has entered a fallow phase but it is merely on furlough for a while and will be…

2 years ago