Summer Institute countdown: 12 weeks Controversial “Don’t Say Gay” law modified after court ruling. The word justice has global roots, from the Latin origin of justus, via the Middle English, Anglo-French term, juste. The morpheme jus has two meanings: law, and right. However, it is also similar to a Sanskrit word yos, meaning welfare. In…Continue Reading LGBTQ+ justice in the classroom?
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Does Standardized Testing Encourage Patchwriting?
Summer Institute countdown: 13 weeks. Spring Break–the calm before the standardized-testing storm. It’s Spring Break for many South Florida schools, and teachers like me are catching up on sleep, Netflix, and counting down until summer. Nine weeks, by the way. But between this week-long idyll and the blue-sky expanse of June through August, we have…Continue Reading Does Standardized Testing Encourage Patchwriting?