Last week a school principal in Florida was forced to resign, because a few parents got upset over a photo of Michelangelo’s David in a textbook. The school board claims the principal had failed to properly notify parents in advance[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I try to avoid using Orwellian tropes in my work, because they get overused in political discourse, and often misused. But when the right keeps using the law to remove books and forbid teaching on subjects that make them uncomfortable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the record, allusions to the Prussian model of education are really a shorthand for the many shortcomings imposed on public education, and risk a lot of ahistorical easythink when approaching those problems. Audrey Waters argues in The Invented History[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My daughter graduated from high school last week, and I could not be more proud of her, and not a little gobsmacked by the passage of time. The ceremony was nice, and I was very happy to see her mount[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a webcomic page I created for IncitED, a nonprofit organization that helps raise money and awareness for education projects. Props to Kevilina and Peter, who were a pleasure to work with. To the Commissioned Comics Gallery.
The Oregonian editors lament the latest round of cuts in education throughout the state of Oregon and puzzle over the absence of outrage among citizens who see their school systems eliminate staff, shorten the school year, and close schools. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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