by E.O. | May 8, 2025 | Education
Public Schools Education is a difficult task, starting with the question of content. What is it that we want our children to learn? Public schools bear burdens far beyond this fundamental question. There are many public schools in which a large portion of the children...
by E.O. | Apr 30, 2024 | Education, Environment, Equity, Government, Human, Humanism, Pluralism
The survival of the United States as a fundamentally free country depends on a commitment to democracy, republicanism, and pluralism. Can these survive our present cultural polarization? Our differences are many but most critically we are separated over what it means...
by E.O. | Jan 10, 2024 | Education
The Holiday Tango The Evacuation of Public Education I am a recipient of 12 1/2 years of public education (when I was young kindergarten met only half days. In those days kindergarten was seen as a transition year, allowing children to adjust from life at home into...
by E.O. | Oct 27, 2023 | Education
Vouchers II Failure to provide educational vouchers is a violation of the separation of Church and State principle. The State has a justified interest in the education of its citizens. But when it designs an educational system permeated with a narrowly defined...
by E.O. | Oct 7, 2021 | Education, Justice, Prejudice, Racism
Something Happened In Our Town is a book written by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard from the Emory University School of Medicine. A Marshall University article about the book commented: “This New York Times and Indiebound bestseller is written by...
by E.O. | Sep 9, 2021 | Education, Vouchers
Our country will not consider a voucher system for school education. Why not? Because to do so would put a stop to the ideological bulldozing of the powerful. To do so would undermine the Democratic party. To do so would damage The American Federation of Teachers and...
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