Nancy Barno Reynolds/Education

Nancy Barno Reynolds/Education

ROSS FINDON PHOTO/ Unsplash   Those Who Can, Teach: Transitioning Through Education   by Nancy Barno Reynolds Education Editor I tell people I’ve been teaching for 30 years and deep down, I feel that’s my truth: summer camp art teacher as a teen, writing tutor...

Teen Pregnancy: A Nurse’s Perspective

  Teenage Pregnancy and Education Challenges   by Mary Ryan The deepest issues faced in educating pregnant teens and teenage mothers are best illustrated by a true story. As a Maternal/Child Public Health Nurse, I am frequently called into the homes of...

Catherine Box/Education

    As The Bell Rings   by Catherine Box On the one-year anniversary of the Inauguration of the 45th President, I watched the clock tick to zero on the government shutdown stopgap measure. It seems fitting that a year of turbulence ends with paralysis....
“Shithole Countries”: Trump uses rhetoric of dictators*

“Shithole Countries”: Trump uses rhetoric of dictators*

Photo by Jose Moreno on Unsplash   Employing a Language of Superlatives by Henry A Giroux George Orwell warns us in his dystopian novel 1984 that authoritarianism begins with language. In the novel, “newspeak” is language twisted to deceive, seduce and undermine...
Education/Nancy Barno Reynolds

Education/Nancy Barno Reynolds

Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash   Critical Literacy, Economic Growth, and the Standards Movement: Are We Speaking the Same Language?   by Nancy Barno Reynolds Education Editor The introduction of ESSA (2016) laws mandated by then-President of the United...