The Gap Between Theory and Practice

Today in class, we talked about our first days at Ase and what we carried away from the experience—the most marked common thread between all of us was the sense that things didn’t go exactly as we had planned in one way or another. Whether that meant that we confronted issues we didn’t expect to, [...]

Escape Routes

After reading The Art of Critical Pedagogy, I kept flipping back to one point that resounded poignantly with me: “To date, most resource-based efforts in high schools have focused on improving instruction and learning conditions, with the goal of increasing the number of students who are able to “escape” poverty and attend college—to “better themselves” [...]