Texas textbooks determine what children learn nationwide. “I believe that dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark … somebody’s got to stand up to these experts.” (Don McElroy, former member of the Texas State Board of Education). Watch “The Revisionaries,” on PBS tomorrow night, January 28th:
From Jonathan Turley’s blog: The suicide of famed programmer and free access advocate Aaron Swartz shocked the world. However, the underlying story of the how the Obama Administration prosecuted — and, in the eyes of many, persecuted — Swartz for seeking to publish academic papers which were later released by MIT without charge. Nevertheless,…
Reprinted from Other Words (August 6, 2012) While charter proponents claim that their schools are less bureaucratic, more efficient, and more effective, the evidence doesn’t really back that up. By Jeff Bale and Sarah Knopp “Back-to-school” sales seem to start earlier every year. These days, more than binders and backpacks are on offer. Now, public schools…
Reprinted from Yes! Magazine (October 20, 2011) Some—including Wall Street protesters—say relieving students of nearly a trillion dollars in loans will help the rest of us, too. Ellen Brown asks, could it really work? By Ellen Brown Among the demands of the Wall Street protesters is student debt forgiveness—a debt “jubilee.” Occupy Philly has a…
Editor’s Note: I first ran across this essay, a commencement address given by Paul Hawken to the lucky University of Portland graduating class of 2009, in a beautiful book of inspirational essays called Hope Beneath our Feet. When I wrote to Hawken to get permission to reprint it, his reply included this postscript: “I went to…