The Carbon Clock is Ticking: Children Will Live the Future that Burning Fossil Fuels is Setting on Fire offers a rapidly closing window of opportunity to change the future now. It is important that we respond to the climate crisis by prioritizing the support of children and young people who will be most affected by the rising temperatures and extreme weather events that will make life difficult for them living on a much hotter and less hospitable planet.
Read MoreA teacher, they know and understand. Their kids had teachers. They had teachers when they were young. But County Council? So why is a public school teacher like me trying to get their support on May 18 and get elected?
Read MoreChildren have suffered enough during the pandemic. The last thing they need is to waste time on meaningless standardized tests only to lose the summer to unnecessary remediation prescribed for non-existent deficits.
Read MoreMartin Luther King Jr.‘s understanding of the role of love in engaging individuals and communities in conflict is crucial today. For King, love was not sentimental. It demanded that individuals tell their oppressors what they were doing was wrong.
Read More"'All You Need Is Love' John Lennon" by Steve Nelson was originally published as part of a collection of essays in the book, “United We Stand: Essays On Protest And Resistance” (Garn 2017). We are featuring select essays from the book and offering the entire collection as a FREE EBOOK DOWNLOAD.
Read MoreIn the “era” of Trump the insistence on “Truth”, the idea that “the government and citizens should not lie” may prove the most significant. It is a call to action rooted in our need to speak truth to power in an effort to preserve the ideals that have been essential to our tradition of open and transparent government and freedom of speech.
Read More"Dignity For My Muslim Students And Their Families" by Katie Lapham was originally published as part of a collection of essays in the book, “United We Stand: Essays On Protest And Resistance” (Garn 2017). We are featuring select essays from the book and offering the entire collection as a FREE EBOOK DOWNLOAD.
Read More"Salem And Trump: The Power Of Fear In 1692 and 2016 " by David Joseph Kolb was originally published as part of a collection of essays in the book, “United We Stand: Essays On Protest And Resistance” (Garn 2017). We are featuring select essays from the book and offering the entire collection as a FREE EBOOK DOWNLOAD.
Read More"I’m A Scientist. This Is What I’ll Fight For" by Dr. Jonathan Foley was originally published as part of a collection of essays in the book, “United We Stand: Essays On Protest And Resistance” (Garn 2017). We are featuring select essays from the book and offering the entire collection as a FREE EBOOK DOWNLOAD.
Read MoreCalling for patriotic education is the next step in the politics of lies. If we truly believe in individual freedom, we are now faced with the choice of who we will be as people, whether or not we deserve that freedom. You don’t have to teach people to love their country if that country deserves to be loved.
Read MoreElection campaigns inspire hope, but they can also quickly lead to political despair. During the last two elections, America’s polarized citizens experienced significant swings between hope and despair.
Read MoreIf governments are serious about tackling the climate crisis, radical policies are needed to match radical targets. Here are five measures with immediate impacts that would put them on track.
Read MoreSomething is rotten in the state of American political life. The U.S. (among other nations) is increasingly characterized by highly polarized, informationally insulated ideological communities occupying their own factual universes.
Read MoreIn the past few years, it has been common to see media reports such as these that highlight sensational incidents of political conflicts on American college campuses. But are headlines and anecdotal reports telling the real story?
Read MoreIn order to draw out potential paths toward the sustainable development goals, a study published in Nature Sustainability designed six “SDG Transformations” that map out actions necessary to achieve them.
Read MorePick any of the big topics of the day – Brexit, climate change or Trump’s immigration policies – and wander online. What one is likely to find is radical polarization – different groups of people living in different worlds, populated with utterly different facts.
Read MoreFifteen kids from a dozen countries, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, recently brought a formal complaint to the United Nations. They’re arguing that climate change violates children’s rights as guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a global agreement.
Read MoreClasses in Chicago’s public schools were canceled starting Oct. 17 as more than 25,000 teachers in the nation’s third-largest school district went on strike in what they’re calling a fight for “justice and equity” for their students.
Read MoreIt’s common knowledge that liberals and conservatives live in different places. After all, the idea of “red states” and “blue states” is based in reality. But preferences are much more local than that.
Read MoreClimate activists walked out of classrooms and workplaces in more than 150 countries on Friday, Sept. 20 to demand stronger action on climate change. Mass mobilizations like this have become increasingly common in recent years.
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