The Highlighter By Mark Isero The best of the week on race, education, and culture. 509 subscribers 194 issues Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh Are you a robot? 🤖
#191 May 2, 2019 #191: Faith, Friendship, and Tragedy – Happy Thursday, and welcome to this week’s edition of The Highlighter! I’m happy it’s May, my favorit
#190 Apr 25, 2019 #190: Fixer Upper America – Happy Thursday, loyal readers! This week it hit me: There are two types of Americans — those who like
#189 Apr 18, 2019 #189: The Case for Integration – Most Americans say they want their children to attend a racially diverse school. But in reality, scho
#188 Apr 11, 2019 #188: White Tears – Happy Thursday, loyal readers, and welcome to The Highlighter! This week’s issue promises more than a
#187 Apr 4, 2019 #187: Bang, Bang, in a Boy Voice – Hi there, and greetings from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where somehow it’s cold and nobody told me it woul
#186 Mar 28, 2019 #186: Vanishing Youth Violence – Youth violence is way down, especially in California. But that doesn’t mean juvenile halls are closin
#185 Mar 21, 2019 #185: White Nationalism Is Deeply American – This week’s lead article about the roots of white nationalism in the United States came to my attenti
#184 Mar 14, 2019 #184: The Problem with Growth Mindset – The college admissions scandal riveted our attention this week, and several loyal readers reached out
#183 Mar 7, 2019 #183: The Whitest News You Know – For a very long time, I have loved journalism and believed in its quest for truth. Every morning as a
#182 Feb 28, 2019 #182: How America Remembers – My first year of teaching, I challenged my students to create museum exhibits of the atomic bombing o
#181 Feb 21, 2019 #181: The Color of Money 💵 – If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money? Many people say they’d share the jackpot wi
#180 Feb 14, 2019 #180: This Too Was History – What should students learn about in their U.S. History class? That’s the question at the heart of thi
#179 Feb 7, 2019 #179: Health as Resistance – We’re in the middle of an age of activism. Teachers are striking, women are marching, people are prot
#178 Jan 31, 2019 #178: Capitalism Is Eating Its Young – In the middle of my teaching career, many of my students stopped believing in the promise of college.
#177 Jan 24, 2019 #177: When Best Isn’t Enough 🎓 – Happy Thursday! I’m happy to report that our reading community continues to grow. For the second week
#176 Jan 17, 2019 #176: The Weight I Carry – Happy Thursday, loyal readers, and welcome! Last week’s Highlighter was the most popular issue ever.
#175 Jan 10, 2019 #175: Millennials Are Burned Out – Happy Thursday, loyal readers, and welcome! I get to work with teachers, which makes me happy, and a
