by Mitch Randall | Aug 25, 2022 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
Books are being taken off the shelves at an alarming rate in public school libraries nationwide. PEN America, a nonprofit advocacy group, reported to The Washington Post that 1,586 books were banned last school year, including original publications and adaptations....
by Riya Kohli | Aug 19, 2022 | Opinion
No student should ever be made to feel excluded in school. But this past U.S. Supreme Court term delivered decision after decision dismantling decades of progress in the separation of religion and schools. The conservative justices of the court seem eager to erode...
by Clark Frailey | Aug 18, 2022 | Opinion
A former Methodist minister turned Baptist pastor named Evan Dhu Cameron was the first state superintendent in the newly formed state of Oklahoma. In 1908, he wrote: “It is true that our public-school system is ‘the spring from whence all our liberties flow,’ and...
by Kristina Collins | Aug 17, 2022 | Opinion
Hillary Clinton wrote a book in 1996 titled, It Takes a Village, where she shared her vision to make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults. Mrs. Clinton believes that how children develop and what they need...
by Cameron Vickrey | Aug 16, 2022 | Opinion
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...
