Matthew R. Morris - A Conversation On Education, Race, and Schooling

Emotional Intelligence

We need to come to our senses when it comes to teaching. I’ve been told that teaching kids to memorize their times-tables don’t matter anymore. …

I’m neither an expert on the subject of teaching black boys nor am I a child psychologist that specializes in the mindset of the adolescent …

I can’t remember ever giving a student a detention. And I know for sure that I’ve never given detention to an entire class. When I …

Millionaire rapper, J. Cole, made a song titled Neighbors “inspired” by a SWAT raid on his house after his rich white neighbors called the police …

In the last few years of my life I’ve found it increasingly difficult to burn off that late night pizza slice or the friday burger …

I never liked English class. Actually, I hated it. The reasons were purely due to the pedantic methods that teachers used in my elementary and …

So, the government of Ontario has decided on a cell phone ban in classrooms for the upcoming school year. I am going to try to …

At the beginning of each year, I buy a standard box of no. 2 pencils. The box comes with 500. About midway through the school …

Between the ages of twelve to nineteen I idolized the same people you did. I looked up to people that were, subconsciously I guess, specific …

I know. The title seems ignorant and at the least, redundant. I know, on the surface, it seems asinine to question the importance of Black …