Coming to the end of a 17 year public school teaching career, teacherken as Ken Bernstein is known remains active online on educational and other issues of interest, such as the environment, human rights, civil liberties, and economic equity. He has degrees from Haverford, St. Charles Seminary, and Johns Hopkins and additional graduate studies at UVa and Catholic. He has resided in Arlington VA since 1982, and is married with (now only) 4 cats. Ken is National Board Certified in Social Studies and was a 2010 Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher. He previously led panels on Education at YearlyKos in Las Vegas in 2006 and Chicago in 2007, and on politically active youth at Netroots Nation in Austin in 2007. He was one of the organizer's of 2011's Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action in Washington DC.