Many may have been assigned in high school the legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury’s inimitable 1953 dystopic novel Fahrenheit 451.
If not, briefly, it’s a story about a future America in which books are banned, and...
Many may have been assigned in high school the legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury's inimitable 1953 dystopic novel Fahrenheit 451.
If not, briefly, it's a story about a future America in which books are banned, and...
Randomly stop any individual at work, on the street, or anywhere else, and ask his or her opinion of the government.
You're bound to receive responses like:
"Government is too big."
"The government screws up everything."
"There's too much...
A seat on a local school board isn't traditionally a controversial, high-profile position.
Boards of education do not usually make front-page news.
They aren't responsible for national security, federal budgets, environmental policy, healthcare, defense, or immigration.
Most couldn't...
Democrats have a day to prove they are capable of delivering on President Joe Biden's campaign promise of "building back better."
If they fail, they risk a republican rout in next year's mid-term elections and possibly...
Back in September, two months before losing the election to Joe Biden, when Donald Trump was repeating the fallacy either he win the election or it’s “rigged,” Trump announced the formation of the “1776 Commission,”...
We live in interesting times.
We may not stop too often to consider it, but as we speak we are at the mercy of a global pandemic the likes of which the world has not seen...
The pandemic could be killing more than those infected with COVID-19.
Due to its impact on in-person instruction, it might also be delivering a death blow to American public education.
School districts are experiencing a noticeable decline...
This past spring, while COVID-19 ripped through mostly Democratic states like New York, Washington, and New Jersey, the American South had yet to feel its full brunt.
Later that season, though, into the summer, everything began...
"The science should not stand in the way of this. When he says open, he means open and full, kids being able to attend each and every day."
That's the response from White House press secretary...
It is unknown what post-COVID education will look like in America.
Yet in a month colleges and universities are expected to begin their fall semesters.
Harvard University has already decided to move all classes online.
Yale is doing...
In the nearly four years the Trump administration has been in office, it has emboldened white supremacists, weakened environmental and financial regulations, handed a $1.5 trillion permanent tax break to corporations and the wealthy, caged asylum...
If education is supposed to be the great equalizer, what is to become of it when wealthy corporations exploit the coronavirus for profit potential?
Two months ago, American students were halfway through their third of four...
The redder the state, the shorter the life.
That is the argument economist Paul Krugman lays out in a December 2 New York Times column in which he debunks the typical right-wing claim the United States is...
We decided centuries ago an educated populace is vital to maintaining a civilized, productive society.
When it comes to Democracy, none other than Thomas Jefferson said:
"An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as...
"I’m not sending anyone to jail yet, but it’s good to know I have that ability."
This is what U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim reportedly told Education Department lawyers last week about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Kim...
Whenever Democrats propose policies to make college more affordable or to provide healthcare to all as a human right, there's always (always!) someone asking, "How do we pay for it?"
The mainstream (so-called "liberal") media is...
52 wealthy people have been charged with fraud for participating in a $25 million college entrance exam cheating scheme, the largest college admissions scandal the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) has ever prosecuted.
This is a big...
Some believed, favorably or otherwise, that the landmark Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) case the Supreme Court decided in June would signal the death knell for public sector unions.
That fear is not baseless...
Although technically not over yet, summer is behind us.
And with September comes students and teachers back at school.
But this year might be different for America's traditionally underappreciated educators.
After teachers in Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arizona, North Carolina,...
