Poverty

10 Jul, 2020

Time to Re-Open Schools?

Nancy Admin2020-07-10T06:00:15-07:00Categories: Children, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Demonstrations and Protests, Families, home, Hope, Musings, Prayer, Reality, Sacramento, Sheltering-in-Place, Teaching, Writing|Tags: Betsy DeVos, Classroom instruction, Corona Virus Testing, Health, Instructional Delivery, Poverty, Republican president, Schools|

This week when the Republican President and his entitled Secretary of Education demanded that public schools open full time/full service this fall, virus or no virus, OR they would lose [...]

Good Summer Reads

Nancy Admin2013-07-20T09:19:12-07:00Categories: Books, Current Events, Writing|Tags: Barbara Kingsolver, Blind Assassin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gillian Flynn, Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Literature, Margaret Atwood, Poverty, Prodigal Summer, Year of the Flood|

Marketers would have us believe that summer is the time for books that are light and frothy, suitable for beach or poolside reading. But since I generally didn’t work for [...]

Poverty and Our Public Schools

Nancy Admin2013-06-14T15:08:03-07:00Categories: Current Events, Teaching|Tags: Education, Free Appropriate Public Education, Poverty|

I chose to make my career in public education and I have become a fierce defender of it as a democratic institution. I worked as a special educator with [...]