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…
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…
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…
Meaning Loss
In Meaning Loss, Sanje Ratnavale has written a practical and timely contribution to an important debate that all schools should…
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…
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…
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…
Words Matter
When I taught fourth and fifth grade at a school that didn't assign grades, the topic occasionally came up among…
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…
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…