Jacob Goodwin: America Should Not Be Governed by Fear—And Neither Should Its Teachers
Robust civic life requires a renewed focus on civics and history in our public schools and a reversal of a decades-long trend limiting instructional time.
Lisa Arrastia: Letter to My Student Teachers on a Day of Yet Another School Mass Shooting in America
While some will call for greater discipline, more resource officers, and paying for “threat assessments,” I will call for love and uplift you, the teachers in public pre-k-12 schools.
Baron Wormser: A Poetry Proposal
There is no shortage of poems and no shortage of strategies to deliver the poems. The failing lies in our wariness. It’s true: to embrace poetry is to embrace a degree of uncertainty. Yet what else is life?
Frida Berrigan: Saving our schools starts with spending less on the military
Public schools have become society’s safety nets, and they are suffering for it. Imagine if we invested in them rather than war.
Belle Chesler: Will Public Schools Survive Covid-19?
We’re living in a nation struggling to come to terms with the deadly repercussions of a social safety net gutted even before the virus reached our shores and decisions guided by the most self-interested kind of politics rather than the public good.
Lisa Arrastia: Teaching Under Covid
We need a radical plan for the public, even though care for all shouldn’t be such a radical notion.
Marc Jampole: Weapons of Math Destruction
Mathematical models for everything from marketing to perusing resumes are making inequality and discrimination against the poor and minorities worse.
Bernie Sanders: A Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education
Every human being has the fundamental right to a good education. On this 65th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, we are committed to creating an education system that works for all people, not just the wealthy and powerful.
Belle Chesler: Defunding Children — A National Crisis of the Soul
Our kids are struggling not because we’ve forgotten how to teach them or they’ve forgotten how to learn, but because the adults who run this society have largely decided that their collective future is not a priority.
Steven Singer: Reasons People Hate, Hate, HATE Betsy DeVos
Lesley Stahl: Why have you become, people say, the most hated Cabinet secretary? Education Sec. Betsy DeVos: I’m not sure exactly how that happened… I’m more misunderstood than anything. . … Continue reading
Terry Blackhawk: A Poet in Every School
The Inside Out Literary Arts Program is in its fourth year at Detroit’s Marcus Garvey K-8 Academy and, thanks to a determined group of parent activists who obtained a grant from … Continue reading
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