Hearts and Minds
Military recruitment in high schools is an epidemic today,distorting the purposes of education and putting poor kids and kids of color in harm’s way….. In Purple Hearts the documentary photographer...
View ArticleWeather Underground Redux
The Weather Underground, born Phoenix-like from the ashes of a terrible explosion that killed three of our leaders in Greenwich Village, New York on March 6, 1970, stormed fleetingly across the...
View ArticleCHILD SOLDIERS…by Therese Quinn, Erica Meiners, Bill Ayers
In 2001 Chicago’s Mayor, Richard M. Daley commented on an article in the online journal, Education Next, by then-Mayor of Oakland, California, Jerry Brown. Brown’s essay offered a rationale for the...
View ArticleNarrative Push/Narrative Pull
Words words words words. Weird words common words, fragile words and sturdy words, empty words and blah blah blah, imaginary real life, falling filing...
View ArticleInauguration 1-20-09
And in that bright transcendent morning, the once unthinkable was, suddenly and inevitably, done. Who could resist the embracing magic of that moment? The poet Elizabeth Alexander invoked the common...
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