Progressive Voices Speaking Out
What would you rather have in America’s schools; high test scores or students who are empathetic and have strong critical thinking skills? What good is it for an individual, or for American society, if students test well but also think that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election?
College campuses are supposed to be places where students can grow intellectually, while also feeling comfortable enough to share their beliefs and opinions. However,
Bernie Sanders also has a student loan forgiveness proposal; he wants to forgive all of it. That’s it. There are no formulas, no missives full of technocratic language, and no barrier to entry other than having accumulated student loan debt.
My local school district, the Ichabod Crane Central School District in New York’s Hudson Valley, recently held a vote on a capital improvement project
The Constitution is important. Full stop. It does many things, chief among them being defining and protecting the rights of people in the United
A simple description of Tara Westover’s “Educated” would be that is a memoir of a childhood and young adult years in a fundamentalist Mormon
When you’re running for a school board position in suburban St. Louis and tweet out memes about banning Islam in America, what could possibly
So many adults think that it is so cute, even enlightening, when a student such as Emma Gonzalez at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Is it possible to swill a dozen Diet Cokes and read on the same day? It is. But it’s also possible to down the
I just graduated, but as I’ve been reflecting on how it has shaped me, I realized my most important lessons came outside the classroom.