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Category: Education

Politics and Education

Changing Our Schools is Vital to Our National Healing

January 11, 2022 Arthur Lieber Activism, Democracy, Education, Politics, Republican Brain, Trump voters Leave a comment

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?

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Cultural sensitivity at colleges: Separate but equal again?

August 23, 2019 Claire Shackleford Civil Rights, Education, Uncategorized Leave a comment

College campuses are supposed to be places where students can grow intellectually, while also feeling comfortable enough to share their beliefs and opinions. However,

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Embrace Universality, Reject Means Testing

August 6, 2019 Reece Ellis 2020 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Campaigns, Candidates, Education, Health care, Politics Leave a comment

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.

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Who should pay for school-security upgrades? gun manufacturers

December 15, 2018 Renee Shur Children, Education, Guns, Widgets: Guns Leave a comment

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

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Mittman

While Rome burns, the ACLU rebuilds

July 26, 2018 Reece Ellis 2018 Election, Activism, Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Consumer issues, Democracy, Education, Gender issues, Justice, LGBT, Prison, Supreme Court [SCOTUS] Leave a comment

The Constitution is important. Full stop. It does many things, chief among them being defining and protecting the rights of people in the United

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Educated: A painful, honest memoir of family vs. self

July 19, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Education, Literature/Arts/Film, People Leave a comment

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

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“Xenophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist.” Who, me?

March 30, 2018 Bill Kesler 2018 Election, Civil Rights, Education, Justice, Religion in Politics Leave a comment

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

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Emma Gonzalez

Time for students to patronize adults; not the other way around

February 27, 2018 Arthur Lieber 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Activism, Civil liberties, Democracy, Education, Guns, Human Rights, Justice Leave a comment

So many adults think that it is so cute, even enlightening, when a student such as Emma Gonzalez at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

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Trump-reading

In defense of reading, and of not reading

December 14, 2017 Arthur Lieber Education, Trump One comment

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

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MLK

What My B.A. Didn’t Teach Me, But I Learned Anyway

May 29, 2017 Hafsa Activism, Education, Human Rights, Justice 2 comments

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.

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