Who Is the ‘We’: An Education for Us
This past week at my school saw much of the pageantry and lead-up which precedes the Thanksgiving recesses in so many U.S. learning communities. The hallways were filled with handprint […]
Author Archives: Benji Hart
Radical Desires: Education as Queer Work
Since starting this blog, a few people have asked me why I decided to give a queer title and framework to a blog where so many of the discussions and […]
Revising Traditions: Some Thoughts On Capacity
“…And they’ll probably talk about my hard childhood, and never understand that all the while I was quite happy.” – Nikki Giovanni As a kid, I attended a subsidized after […]
NYC’s Homeless: The Original Occupiers of Wall Street
I made a brief visit a few weekends ago to Zuccotti Park, the original site of the Occupy Wall Street camp outs, assemblies and demonstrations which are still taking place […]
A Radical Approach to Veterans Day
This past Wednesday morning at all school assembly in the gymnasium, my school’s principle reminded the students that we would not be having classes on Friday because of Veterans Day. […]
Occupy Education: Three Great Projects and Pieces of Reading
In a moment of exciting but also confusing shifts in political action and discussion, I wanted to post links to a few sites and articles which have been helping me […]
Radical Alliances: Police as Working People
One of my uncles, who is currently unemployed, worked as a police officer and security guard for most of my young life. He dropped out of high school to join […]
Process Over Product: The Problem with ‘Achievement’
Yesterday, my mentor teacher broke the class up into four groups about five students each and sat them in different parts of the room, with the instruction that they were […]
No Justice, No Peace: Challenging ‘Diversity’ and Embracing Conflict
A teaching program of which I was recently a part held a ‘Diversity Day’ early on in the program’s duration. The goal of the day was to give the community […]
Heads Up for Precious Knowledge Film Screening
This is just a heads up to all those who may be in the NYC area during this coming November. There will be a screening of the film Precious Knowledge […]
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