Why I Root for Tiger Woods or, Golf and Independent Schools

I don’t play golf, but I watch it on TV. Sounds like the line about a doctor but it describes my interest in the sport. While I do not play because I find golf to be overly time consuming and environmentally unfriendly, I watch golf for one reason: to watch Tiger Woods and to hope that every time he plays, he wins.

A Doctrine of One Third

What can be done in schools that operate within a framework, created by history and tradition that remain the exclusive and privileged territories of certain families? Or at schools in which there are two career tracks for the educators who work there: one for "white" men and one, with fewer opportunities, for those who in some way are "other?" or in schools in which students must attend classes as the only representatives of their race or religion or class, with few or no adults like them to turn to within the school?

The Responsibilities of European American Men in Independent Schools

I have come to the unsettling realization that much of the work being done in our schools concerning issues of diversity is being suggested, discussed and accomplished without the active, daily participation of "white" male faculty and administrators.