2022-02-26 Public Education & COVID-19
Part I: Why is Public Education Public? “…it’s hard to think of an education-related policy that has effectively and sustainably worked, beyond the granddaddy of all ed policy: a free, high-quality,...
View Article2022-03-05 Education in a Time of Pandemic II
Where Have All the Teachers Gone? Most American readers will be familiar with the euphemistically-termed “teacher shortage,” often presented in the media as an out-of-the-blue consequence of the...
View Article2022-03-25 Education in a Time of Pandemic III
Governance & Education Policy: Where Have All the Grown-ups Gone? “It’s just not one or two people here — there’s a mind-set coming from the governor on down to ban conversation and to segment...
View Article2022-03-28 Education in a Time of Pandemic IV
Prologue: What Education Cannot Do Before taking up the long list of public school crypto- (and not-so-crypto) privatization initiatives in our final installment concerning the consequences for public...
View Article2022-04-06 Interlude
The Story of Buzz and Janie and Danny It has been clear for some time that completing our series of planned posts on “Education in a Time of Pandemic” has become difficult, painful even. The final...
View Article2022-04-11 Education in a Time of Pandemic IV
Interlude 2: There Is a Better Way ‘Happiness does not come from searching for it, but by living’ (Finnish saying) We’ll see in the final part of our series how the K-12 public education in the U.S. –...
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2022-05-29 As We Sow, So Shall We Reap
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and...
View Article2022-08-08 The Better Angels of Our Nature
So do the shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. –Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1841) Yesterday evening I learned of the passing...
View Article2022-10-29 A Tale of Two Films: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
From 1957 to 1992 to 2022: Three Generations of Social Mores Angela Lansbury passed away on October 11, just 5 days short of her 97th birthday. A major stage, film, and television presence for 70...
View Article2022-11-26 Let’s Talk Gratitude
It is the weekend after Thanksgiving, and by now we’ve been – and continue to be – exhorted by every opinion writer in the English-speaking world to “give thanks for our blessings.” In other words, we...
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