Educating Our Invisible Children

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Earlier this month, I wrote about a student of mine whose future will be severely impaired by the current high stakes testing regime.

She is not the only one.

My article mentioned the a few of the kids who have been in the news lately because of their extreme circumstances.

But what about the invisible children, the millions of poverty-stricken, homeless kids? We hear the stories of children like Dasani, whose story is told in the New York Times, but what about those kids whose stories we never hear?

David Coleman would say no one cares what they think.

But I think he is wrong.

I care.

What about you?

About the author 

Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.

Michelle taught secondary ELA in public schools for 10 years. She served as an award-winning journalist before transitioning into education and is now Assistant Director of the OU Writing Center and a teacher consultant for the Oklahoma Writing Project. Michelle co-edited the Oklahoma English Journal for five years. She is a PhD candidate in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum at the University of Oklahoma. She started reThink ELA LLC as a teacher blog in 2012.

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