Ms. Katie's Ramblings

In education circles, there is often a lot of talk about how to prevent and deal with bullying in our schools.  There are anti-bullying prog...

I just finished reading MSNBC host and Nation contributor Chris Hayes' new book: Twilight of the Elites .  In the book, he highlights ho...

I have dropped off the face of the blogging world.  The reason is two-fold.  First, life at the psychiatric hospital where I work has become...

Diane Ravitch is encouraging everyone with an interest in education to write a letter to President Obama and send it to him on October 17th ...

So the other day I jokingly posted on facebook that I was planning on sneaking in to a screening of Won't Back Down.  A couple education...

Dear Mayor Rahm Emanuel, A few months ago I wrote an open letter to you about why I will not teach in your schools .  You, and your corpo...

It has been an amazing couple of weeks here in Chicago.   For once, the topic of education was part of the national-no international -conver...