Stephen Sawchuk: How the CRT Debate Is Shaping State History Standards
Stephen Sawchuk wrote in Education Week about the ways that public controversy about “critical race theory” is affecting the drafting and revision of state history...
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Reflections by Blogger Robert Hubbell
This is a blogger whose thoughts and writings I enjoy. December 31, 2021 Robert B. Hubbell Dec 31 [Audio version of newsletter here] Legendary House Speaker...
Oklahoma: 6th Grade Boy Saves Two Lives in One Day
Davyon Johnson, a sixth-grader in the MuskogeePublic Schools saved two lives in one day. In the morning, he performed the Heimlich maneuver on a classmate...
The View from Canada: Why Public Schools Are Public
As we wade through the muck of a national effort to privatize public schools and replace them with “school choice,” via privately-run charters and vouchers,...
New Hampshire: Rabid Protestors Attack Democracy
It’s happening across the nation: Angry anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are undermining democracy, science, and civil society. They are disrupting school board meetings, town council meetings,...
Billy Townsend: GOP Candidate for Mayor Promises to Ban “Marxists” and George Soros from Lakeland, Florida
Billy Townsend zeroes in on Lakeland, Florida’s mayoral campaign to illustrate how far off the rails the Republican Party has gone. The Republican candidate is...
New Hampshire: What Happens When Society Stops Caring for Its Children?
Jeanne Dietsch writes regularly about politics and social welfare in New Hampshire. She is a former legislator. The Republican legislature recently voted to cut public...
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...
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...