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NYC Seeks Ban on “Dinosaur” and “Evolution” in Standardized Tests. Sam Wineburg Has a Wonderful Retort.

When CNN reported last week on the fifty words that the New York City Department of Education seeks to ban from its standardized tests, the list was discovered to include “dinosaur” and “evolution.” Fundamentalist Christian, Orthodox Jewish, Mormon, Jehovah Witness, … Continue reading

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The Bright American Future

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Changing the Education Paradigm

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How Free is Your Speech if You Are an Instructor at a Publicly Financed School?

According to the ACLU website, if you are a public school teacher your free speech latitude depends on two things: where you are expressing yourself (in or out of the classroom); and whether you teach minors or adults. Here’s the … Continue reading

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Knowing When to Be Quiet is a Part of Growing Up

Translation: Get with the program, shut up, conform, and obey. In my whisper voice, can I recite the First Amendment?

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The Makers of South Park Illustrate an Alan Watts Anecdote on “Life as Music”

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The Literate v. The Illiterate: Chris Hedges on the Real American Divide

Money quote from Chris Hedges’s recent thought provoking article: We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. … Continue reading

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