Ellen Foley

You Won’t Fix Providence’s Public Schools Until You Tackle the Root of the Problem
The recently-published report on Providence public schools, where I teach and where my children learn, contained just one major finding. That finding didn’t have to…

If We Want to Personalize Learning, We Need to Rethink the Common Core
This past spring, I was proudly describing a performance assessment in which I had my ninth- and 10th-grade students map out their neighborhood using parallel…