What Makes a “Good” School? Excerpted from WANTING WHAT’S BEST
June 7th, 2022 | by Sarah W. Jaffe
Before the handshake was even complete, he asked, “So how are the schools down there?”
June 7th, 2022 | by Sarah W. Jaffe
Before the handshake was even complete, he asked, “So how are the schools down there?”
November 5th, 2021 | by Meg Lemke
The pandemic exposed the disaster of the inequity within the American education system for many folks—but, many folks already knew,
September 24th, 2021 | by Tyler Cohen
Who knows what comes next?
August 26th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
Asking schools to solve a pandemic is like asking them to solve poverty. We demand both. And damn, schools fight the good fight.
May 20th, 2021 | by Meg Thompson
In my heart, I wanted to keep her home because the situation seemed so precarious, wobbly, built on something none of us fully understood
January 29th, 2021 | by Lisa Lim
Remote learning or in-person learning? Whatever decision you made, you had to stick to it for the rest of the school year. No backsies. What made it even tougher was deciding whether to stay put at my in-law’s house in the middle of nowhere, or go home to the city.
September 23rd, 2020 | by Phoebe Cohen
He's ecstatic; I feel guilty
September 8th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
I have to queue up the apps, but he wants to do it himself. He screams, “It’s my tablet! Let go of my tablet!” I snatch it away. He hits me in the face.
June 26th, 2020 | by Sarah W. Jaffe
COVID has cleanly crystalized a pattern in which well-off parents are allowed to decide what’s right for their families—and poorer families are told what is best for theirs.
April 28th, 2020 | by Robyn Jordan
They share nonsense gifs and unflattering selfies. They mention loneliness and sometimes tease each other