Back in December as part of our Literary Lowell series, we profiled local author David Daniel, author of the Alex Rasmussen detective series and a number of other books. Now it’s David’s turn to contribute a new author profile to the blog. He recently caught up with Jason Trask who now lives in Maine but who spent … Continue reading A conversation with author Jason Trask (with David Daniel)
Tag: Education
Students Learn from the People They Love
I'm not a huge fan of David Brooks, but sometimes he gets it right. This is one of those times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/learning-emotion-education.html?ref=oembed
The New Plantation
The New Plantation: Lessons from Rikers Island is a memoir about my experiences as a teacher of 16 to 18 year old incarcerated males in a public high school on Rikers Island, one of the largest penal colonies in the world. It will be published by Deerbrook Editions in June of 2019. This blog deals with the … Continue reading The New Plantation
Incarceration in America
I spent three years teaching young men between the ages of 16 and 18 in a public high school run by the New York City Department of Education on Rikers Island, one of the world's largest penal colonies. Because Rikers is a jail, all of my students were awaiting trial. Most of them had been … Continue reading Incarceration in America
the new plantation 