Carmen Firan/Commentary

Carmen Firan/Commentary

Kayle Kaupanger, Unsplash Trump International Hotel And Tower Chicago. Chicago, United States. *** From Kafka’s Castle to Trump’s Tower by Carmen Firan Every morning K waited to be called up into the Castle. A mysterious authority ruled over a world of fear and...
Larry Dake/Education

Larry Dake/Education

JJ Thompson photo. Unsplash.com *** What do the 2015 PISA Results Tell Us About American Schools?  An Encouraging Story…   by Larry Dake The public refrain has been familiar for some time now: “Public schools are in crisis and we have to fix them.”  This theme...
Brian Fay/Education

Brian Fay/Education

Wikipedia Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights marchers.   Bravery In Education by Brian G. Fay My teaching career began long after the revolutions of the sixties and seventies. I wasn’t born until 1968 and so I never marched in the protests for Vietnam let...
Donna Vitucci/An excerpt from “Salt of Patriots”

Donna Vitucci/An excerpt from “Salt of Patriots”

Talk by matusf *** The Talk SEPTEMBER 1955 In a town as small as Fernald, rumors blew like milkweed blasted from a broken pod. Customers whispered while waiting in Carson’s checkout line. Employees snaking through the entrance and exit stiles of the atomic plant...
Henry A. Giroux/Commentary

Henry A. Giroux/Commentary

Tight Antic II. Oil on Canvas, Hawk Alfredson *** Rethinking Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World in Trump’s America   If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.                                          ...