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,...
Category : Citizenship
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...
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...
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,...