Jack Schneider: What is “Public” about Public Education?
Jack Schneider is a historian of education at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. He and Jennifer Berkshire recently published a superb book, A Wolf...
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Joel Westheimer: Three Essential Lessons That COVID Taught Us About Education
Joel Westheimer is a professor of education at the University of Ottawa. He wrote this article for The Ottawa Citizen and shared it with me....
Texas: The Mayor Who Told People in His Town to Fend for Themselves
This story has justifiably gotten a lot of national attention. Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, resigned after posting the following message on...
Edutopia: What is a Good School?
Edutopia reports on new research by Professor C. Kirabo Jackson of Northwestern University, who finds that a “good school” does much more than raise test...
Greg B: The Significance of This Day
I “attended” only one Inauguration, that of John F. Kennedy in 1961. I had been married only six months, and my husband and I took...
Andrea Gabor: Now Is the Time to Revive Civics Education and Media Literacy
Andrea Gabor argues that the violent storming of Congress is reason to revive civics in schools. Clearly, she writes, many Americans do not understand the...
Accountability for Those Who Provoked Insurrection
Brianna Keilar of CNN speaks here about the post-insurrection efforts to rewrite history by those who were complicit in nurturing the mob and amplifying their...
George Will: Remember The Seditionists
George Will is a conservative who adheres to conservative principles of personal responsibility, ethical behavior, and limited government. For these reasons, he despises Donald Trump,...
Andrea Gabor: We Need Civics Education!
Andrea Gabor, the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College of the City University of New York, writes here about the importance of civics...
Arthur Camins: How Do We Persuade Nearly Half of Voters that A Better Society for All is Good for Them Too?
Arthur Camins, retired science and technology educator, knows that Democrats must do a better job of reaching out and persuading nearly half of voters that...