Steven Singer
Steven Singer is a husband, father, teacher, blogger and education advocate. He often writes at his own blog here.
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Views Saturday, November 03, 2018 The World Mourns for Jews After Pittsburgh’s Synagogue Shooting. What About Other Targets of Hate? When a white supremacist killed 11 people and wounded 6 others at a Pittsburgh synagogue last weekend, the world took notice. Lights dimmed at the Eiffel Tower and Empire State building . Candlelight vigils were held nationwide – including in Boston, Houston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, New... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 27, 2018 The Pittsburgh Community is Stronger Than the Synagogue Shooter’s Hate There’s a popular yard sign in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. In bands of green and blue and yellow, it projects the same message in Spanish, English and Arabic: “No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor.” If the community had a motto, I think that might be it... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 08, 2018 There Is Virtually No Difference Between Nonprofit and For-Profit Charter Schools Stop kidding yourself. Charter schools are a bad deal. Read more |
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Views Monday, August 27, 2018 No One Ever Remembered a Teacher for Raising Standardized Test Scores It’s the day before school begins. I’m out to eat with my family and have just taken a big bite of a juicy beef taco. That’s when I notice someone standing right next to me at the restaurant. So I raise my eyes upward, a meat filled tortilla overfilled with lettuce and beans hanging from my mouth,... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 11, 2018 This Wall Street PAC Bankrolling Democrats Thinks Being Progressive Means Mirroring Betsy DeVos Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) put out a new video about what they think it means to be an education progressive. And by the political action committee’s definition, Betsy DeVos may be the most “progressive” education secretary ever. She champions “public charter schools.” Just like them !... Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 21, 2018 Wealth—Not Enrollment in Private School—Increases Student Achievement, According to New Study Students enrolled in private schools often get good grades and high test scores. And there’s a reason for that – they’re from wealthier families. "If we really want to help our children, the solution is not increased privatization. It is increased funding and support for anti-poverty programs,... Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 14, 2018 Don’t Tread on Me, But Let Me Tread All Over You: The Credo of Personal Freedom and Limitless Greed Every neighborhood has one. A yellow flag showing a coiled spring of a snake above the motto, “Don’t Tread on Me.” In my usually well-manicured suburb, you’ll find it waving bravely over the garbage house. "The snake is coiled and ready to strike but it is pointed in the wrong direction." There’s... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 30, 2018 The Necessity and Importance of Teachers Are teachers necessary? That’s the question big business is asking. Well, “asking” isn’t really the right word. They’re implying an answer. Hedge fund mangers and ed tech soothsayers are betting hundreds of millions of dollars that educators aren’t really all that important. They’re planning a... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 24, 2018 Antwon Rose’s Life Matters Antwon Rose could have been my student. I teach 7 th and 8 th grade language arts in a district located minutes away from where the 17-year-old was shot and killed by police. East Pittsburgh, the neighborhood where his car was stopped and where he ran from officers before being shot three times in... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 17, 2018 This Father's Day, Let's Be Worthy of Our Children A country that doesn't respect the rights of parents—even if those parents aren't documented U.S. citizens—has no right to pretend it values fatherhood or motherhood Read more |