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Belle Chesler

Belle Chesler, a TomDispatch regular, is a visual arts teacher in Beaverton, Oregon.

Crisis in the Schools

A Return to a Normal That Was Never Good Enough

By Belle Chesler On February 13, 2022On February 13, 2022

My Covid-19 Teaching Year

A World Unraveling Amid Smoke and Death and How One Teacher and Her Students Dealt With It

By Belle Chesler On June 1, 2021On June 1, 2021

The “Great” Reopening

Or Setting America’s Schools Up to Fail

By Belle Chesler On August 20, 2020On August 20, 2020

The Empire Has No Clothes

In the Classroom that Zoom Built

By Belle Chesler On May 10, 2020On May 10, 2020

Making American Schools Less Great Again

A Lesson in Educational Nihilism on a Grand Scale

By Belle Chesler On April 18, 2019On May 15, 2021

Anita, Christine, and Me

The Media’s Moving On, But I’m Not

By Belle Chesler On October 18, 2018On October 18, 2018

Students as Teachers

Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking

By Belle Chesler On April 19, 2018On April 19, 2018

High School Students

The Canaries in the Coal Mine of American Disaster

By Belle Chesler On March 6, 2018On March 6, 2018

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