Should Teachers Ignore Poverty's Impact?
Owens described her effort to join the Philadelphia Teaching Fellows program, and her reaction to the prevailing view in that organization that good teachers should be able to raise the achievement of even the poorest kids. That is my belief, and the belief of the educators I most admire. But most Americans, including Owens, think people like me are wrongly discounting the effects of poverty and thus hurting, rather than helping, the national movement to ... Full Story »
Posted by Fabrice Florin
My mother and brother are public school teachers. Everyone in my family, myself included, partakes in volunteer tutoring and mentoring throughout the year. The questions and issues raised in this column are real and complex and there's little consensus on how to approach many of them. We ask so much of our teachers.