Yesterday, in a 9-5 vote, the Texas Board of Education has replaced the “Slave Trade” with the “Atlantic Triangular trade” for its textbooks and social studies standards over the next ten years. And the United States is no longer a “democracy” but a “constitutional republic.” Thomas Jefferson has nothing over John Calvin, a French theologian [...]
Just as the state board of education in Texas takes the final steps to remove the secular Thomas Jefferson from its history text books, the President has set his focus on bringing the next generation up to speed via education standards, where the previous generation apparently failed (were failed). Some of the country’s most important [...]
Something about “back to school” that feels like a new beginning even if you’ve so-called graduated from it all. Saturday, I joined a newly formed group called the Grassroots Education Project to assist Harriet Tubman Elementary get in shape for the first day of school – that’s today. Neither rain or stifling humidity could keep [...]
