BY JESSICA LUSSIER As we explain to others that we plan to go into education, we continually hear the encouraging, but slightly exasperating, “Well, good for you! I could never do that.” While business and computer science majors graduate with the expectation of success and comfort, future teachers enter into a workforce somehow already oriented… Read More Reclaiming Teacher Labor
BY NICK FORTIER Orientation implies a process. When someone attends an orientation they generally expect to be oriented toward something: a culture, a code of conduct, an approach to the set of tasks at hand. Orientation also implies a direction or trajectory – a goal. Attendants are entering a new institution that they are hoping… Read More Orientation
BY CHELSEY SAUNDERS “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Jump to Section: So What? | Why Are You – We – Here? | Overcoming the Apartheid of TC | The First Step is Student Voice | Next Steps My first experience with a standardized… Read More Long Walk to #OneTC
BY MATT GONZALES Matt Gonzales is a MA student of Education Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a former special education teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District, and a longtime activist. He currently works at the New York Department of Education in the Office of Teacher Recruitment and Quality, and interns… Read More Mayor de Blasio’s School Renewal Plan: Is This Going to Derail Community Schools?
BY PAULA IMPALLI DAVIS I’d like to propose a toast, a toast to education. Here’s to education for today, education that is not preparation, but life itself. Here’s to education that fulfills our lives in the present, that leaves us feeling curious, loved, exhausted. Here’s to education that accepts you as you are, that asks,… Read More A Toast to Education
BY TOMÁS ROCHA LAPES stands for the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society. The organization publishes an annual journal, Lápiz. The following timeline highlights LAPES’ past, present, and future activities and events: The diversity of populations in Latin America, as well as the region’s political, cultural, and economic achievements and challenges, have all uniquely shaped… Read More Welcome to LAPES
BY MATT HASTINGS There is a well-worn comparison made between public schools and factories. Students are moved through school systems along assembly lines. Teachers work on the students as they pass in and out of classrooms coordinated by a system of bells. The end product of this assembly is some kind of standardized person, who… Read More Return on Investment Schooling
BY JOE MARINELLI One year ago, I walked through the halls of Teachers College as a TC student for the first time, astounded and a bit overwhelmed by the institution’s legacy and repute. During the orientation program for new TC students inside Lerner Hall on Columbia’s main campus, I remember thinking to myself, “I cannot… Read More Letter from the Editor: Do I Belong Here
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