By GREGORY MOORE For the past several weeks, I have paused several times a day to try to experience what it’s like to be blind. Claudia Folksa has that kind of effect on you. More about her in a bit. Imagine being blind and you’re in an unfamiliar space — like a supermarket or a concert venue …
Meet Claudia Folska: An innovator and chief champion for the disabled Read More »
KLOWTIFY Commentary Team Today is all about the gap. Everything seems to have one: The student achievement gap; the pay equity gap; the gender gap; the racial gap; the language gap; the literacy gap; the wealth gap; the affective healthcare gap; the economic and gender confidence gaps. The American mind embraces the gap as a given, the distance between, the distinction. A gap inherently defines the haves from the have-nots. It frames the struggle. And …
KLOWTIFY Commentary Team Seeing a headline like the one that ran in the The Chronicle of Higher Education — “Teaching Evaluations Are Racist, Sexist, and Often Useless” — instantly transported me to a time in my 20s when I was a student teacher. On the surface, my experience was positive: I was hired. What I …
Fixing racism and sexism in performance evaluations will take a lot more than metrics Read More »