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A Letter to Failed Teachers. And to Taryn Elam, wherever you are, I’m sorry.
There’s this strange, gutting thing that happens when you’ve spent years studying someone’s life — not in the abstract, but intimately...
Marinda Harrell-Levy
1 day ago5 min read
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The Vibe Check We Missed: When “Mind Your Business” Backfires
As an adolescent development and trauma researcher teaching college students for a while now, I am mindful of that invisible leap young...
Marinda Harrell-Levy
5 days ago4 min read
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You Wanted Order? Welcome to Chaos: The Dangerous Fantasy of Tough-on-Kids Discipline
Another day, another viral video of a school fight. This time, it’s a substitute teacher — a Black woman — brawling with a teenage girl...
Marinda Harrell-Levy
Apr 275 min read
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Excerpt from Book: The Forgotten Cost of De-Professionalizing Urban Teaching—and Why Public Education Still Deserves Our Deepest Investment
I’ve been away for a while, deep in the work of writing two books. The first is a strictly academic study based on a three-year research...
Marinda Harrell-Levy
Mar 275 min read
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