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Cloaking Inequity
Primary focus: Education
A public university classroom is not a political campaign podium. A federal appeals court has just reminded Florida of that, and in doing so, reminded the country of something we should never have forgotten. This week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit struck down the higher education provisions of Florida’s “Stop WOKE” []
What does courage mean in your own life if heroism does not arrive as a choice but as a crisis that drags you forward before you feel ready? That is the question that stayed with me after Project Hail Mary. Okay, okay. I am know I am late to the review, but they just released []
The warning signs are no longer theoretical. Schools are closing. Colleges are preparing layoffs. Faculty buyouts are spreading. Academic programs are disappearing. Dorm beds are sitting empty. Classrooms are thinning out. Tax revenue is weakening. State appropriations are uncertain. Consultants are being hired and paid millions to identify “efficiencies.” Boards are quietly discussing mergers and []
In American history, ‘socialism’ has been one of the most politically radioactive words in the nation’s vocabulary. Yet today, democratic socialists have become one of the most influential factions within the Democratic Party. American politics has a long history of insurgent movements that challenge the leadership of their own political parties before reshaping national debates. []
Have you ever trusted someone to do what they said they would only to discover that, when it mattered most, they didn’t? Now ask yourself the same question about an organization. When I was in elementary school, one of my teachers insisted on reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books to our class every afternoon []
Some films entertain us for two hours. Others quietly measure the passage of our lives. There are very few film franchises that can honestly claim they have accompanied an entire generation from childhood into parenthood, but Toy Story is one of them. I still remember watching the original Toy Story in the 1990s, and I []
Some films entertain us for two hours. Others quietly measure the passage of our lives. There are very few film franchises that can honestly claim they have accompanied an entire generation from childhood into parenthood, but Toy Story is one of them. I still remember watching the original Toy Story in the 1990s, and I []
Given enough time something will eventually go wrong. For years I have been fascinated by science fiction stories in which someone discovers a way to send a message into the future.Those stories usually ask the same question. If you could messages to people who have not yet been born what would you say? I want []
Have you ever had someone suddenly disappear from an organization? I first saw this happen in the 1990s when I began working in the Research and Accountability Department of the Houston Independent School District after graduate school. It happened more than once. Each time it was a shock. One day someone was there. The next []
I received a shocking Father’s Day present today. And it is a lesson for everyone about authority. A phone call telling me that my 18-year-old daughter had been abandoned at the Toledo train station after midnight by her boss Pastor Joe Ottinger, Camp Mojaven Director and leader in the Ohio Conference of Seventh-Day Adventist. Before, []
