Why You Should Send Your Children to Public School

Why You Should Send Your Children to Public School

Any time you are quoted on Twitter, you have to brace yourself for the subsequent comments. Especially if Pastors for Children is the one quoting you. Their Twitter account is a favorite of trolls (education reformers, neo-libertarians and Christian nationalists) who...
Why We Must Repent of Numbness and ‘Stay Angry’

Why We Must Repent of Numbness and ‘Stay Angry’

“Joy is the gift of love, grief is the price of love, and rage is that which protects what is loved.” I keep repeating these words of Valarie Kaur, an activist and spiritual teacher, over and over. Joy — so easily stolen. Grief — so unnecessary. Rage — so inescapable....
Will Choice Fix Educational Woes? Not So Fast

Will Choice Fix Educational Woes? Not So Fast

Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on education is beautiful. Yet, I groaned when I got to this line: “Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.” “Choice” is a buzzword that has been co-opted...