Category: democracy
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Are Students Learning Critical Thinking or Whitewashing?
There are continuing efforts in our country to whitewash history. Many of the early people to record America’s history were white men and therefore had the viewpoint of white men of their time. This is not to say that all the perceptions of white men are inaccurate. It is merely to say that other viewpoints…
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Indicted or Changing the System?
What do you do when you live in a country that continues to marginalize people, including the very children you are working to serve, to educate? What do you do when this system rachets up its effort to marginalize people rather than take actions to improve the lives of marginalized people? I was thinking about…
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Equity in Schools Strengthens Democracy
Thomas Jefferson in his correspondence with John Tyler on May 26, 1810 stated: “ I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength. 1. That of a general education to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every…
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Without Equity There is No Common Good in Schools
Schools Cannot Provide for the Common Good Without Equity A free and thorough education is critical for maintaining our democracy as well as establishing a robust and healthy economy. It is essential for a vibrant and healthy nation. These factors have been driving forces behind the belief that public schools are a common good (Hussian,…