Zachary Wright

Blogger
Teacher
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Blogger
Teacher
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Due to Covid-19, whether we want to or not, our work lives may have to be a whole lot closer…
Imagine a dinner table laden with food and drink, covered end to end with the finest china, porcelain and crystal.…
Becoming a teacher isn’t sexy. For one, there is no economic incentive; for many people, completing teacher preparation programs means…
In the hallway of my apartment growing up in Brooklyn, there was a poster of a cover from the New…
Education ought to be a public good. And it never has been. Most Americans want education to be a public…
WHAT WE GOT WRONG: Over the last decade, and indeed for longer than that, those fighting for justice, many of them White, have largely looked to integration as the panacea for educational inequity.…
I couldn’t believe it. Finally, education was going to take center stage at the 2020 Public Education Forum. All the…
“Progressive” is a slippery word. The very term denotes improvement, progress, and thus is by nature a desirable term with…
Everywhere you look, our schools are filled with traumatized children; children struggling not just to learn and succeed, but to…
Imagine you’re a new teacher in a traditional public school district. You have spent the summer planning for and worrying…
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