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Teachers deserve a lot more money

John Fea   |  February 20, 2024

How about a staring salary of $100,000 a year? Here is Daniel Pink at The Washington Post: Adam DiPerna always had to hold it in. As a Spanish teacher at Gerald G. Huesken Middle School in Lancaster, Pa., he’d arrive in his […]

David Blight: “Trust the teachers!”

John Fea   |  November 23, 2021

The Yale historian and Pulitzer Prize-winner spun his recent tweets into a piece at The Atlantic. Here is a taste: The curriculum, however, is another matter. Trained teachers, curriculum directors, and school principals are responsible for organizing the content and […]

Historian David Blight champions teachers; criticizes Democratic Party’s “endless debates over the right language”

John Fea   |  November 16, 2021

Here is the Pulitzer Prize-winner and Frederick Douglass biographer: Blight is also concerned about the current state of the Democratic Party: