Archive for the Transformative Narratives Category

Leonard C. Burrello Executive Director ​Last month, I stopped by the annual summer Yale Writing Workshop to hear my son Jotham interview Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Jotham had introduced me to These Truths: A History of the United

​Leonard C. BurrelloExecutive Director ​Dena Cushenberry​Social Media ManagerConsultantFollow Dena on Twitter! As many of you know, the media has had a field day beating up educators and education—especially public education. David Brooks, our friend and influencer at The New York Times, writes about American journalism and the

Leonard C. BurrelloExecutive Director Dena Cushenberry​Social Media ManagerConsultantFollow Dena on Twitter! Market Economics 101: It is becoming increasingly clear that income inequality is a pervasive and growing issue across the nation. This issue, paired with ever-shrinking opportunities (the average college tuition rate is now $524 per credit),

Leonard C. BurrelloExecutive Director Dena Cushenberry​Social Media ManagerConsultant​Follow Dena on Twitter! An excerpt from The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life, David Brooks’s newest book, was recently published in The New York Times. Titled “The Moral Peril of Meritocracy,” this essay offers a glimpse of Brook’s larger

Leonard C. BurrelloExecutive Director Dena Cushenberry​Social Media ManagerConsultant​Follow Dena on Twitter! This week, we’d like to pay our deepest respects to the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Bruce Barnett, a professor of educational leadership and policy studies and a leading scholar in our discipline. Recently, Bruce,

​Leonard C. BurrelloExecutive Director ​Dena Cushenberry​Social Media ManagerConsultant​Follow Dena on Twitter! The other week, we talked about being the weavers—rather than the rippers—of our national social fabric. In keeping with that theme, we might find wisdom in the words of Ed Schultz, an old friend of Leonard’s

Leonard C. BurrelloExecutive Director Dena Cushenberry​Social Media ManagerConsultant​Follow Dena on Twitter! Recently, David Brooks, our favorite New York Times columnist, wrote on our collective social fabric—as well as its “weavers” and “rippers.” “Every time you assault and stereotype a person,” he argues, “you’ve ripped the social fabric. Every time

Leonard C. BurrelloExecutive Director Dena Cushenberry​Social Media ManagerConsultant​Follow Dena on Twitter! ​David Brooks of The New York Times is something of a fountain of knowledge for us educators—even when his work isn’t written with us specifically in mind. For his writing regularly encourages readers to consider a

Leonard C. BurrelloExecutive Director Dena Cushenberry​Social Media ManagerConsultant​Follow Dena on Twitter! Last week, we kicked off the new year by discussing the ways in which we might look, in our increasingly globalized and interconnected society, to other American industries—such as healthcare—for ways to critique, better understand, and improve

Leonard C. BurrelloExecutive Directorleonard@aoeducation.net Dena Cushenberry​Social Media ManagerConsultant​Follow Dena on Twitter!​ “The purpose of public education is to create a public.”—Neil Postman As is probably the case for many of you, it feels, during the holidays, like every day is Saturday, a time for both fun and reflection.