This opinion piece, “I’ve Picked My Job Over My Kids,” didn’t flit virally across the internet (at least not on any of my feeds) and it doesn’t propose a radical solution by which women really can have it all. Instead, just as the title suggests, it’s about a woman who made a series of choices and she has prioritized her career. I’ve read through this a few times in advance of writing about it and I experience it differently each time. I have read it as a lean-in narrative of a powerful professional woman, as an incendiary rejection of the notion that anyone can have it all, and as a model of (perhaps unexamined) privilege within the author’s life. Whatever you think about it – and I hope you acknowledge the complexity present in this piece – I think there are a few points worth highlighting.
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We’re delighted to welcome Dawn Czaja back to the blog once again. You may recall her last article, Keep the Cape, in which she resisted the notion that teachers are superheroes. Now, she reflects on the value of the summer recess and just how ragey to get when people suggest teachers have a cushy schedule.
Read MoreThis week in the C-Suite we’re talking about work-life balance, impediments to achieving gender equality in schools, teacher walkouts across the country, and the appointment of Dr. Bridget Terry Long to the position of Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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