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SCOTUS Ruling Misses the Point of Reading Jul. 04, 2025
Literature fuels empathy and conversation. It can foster belonging and it can also fuel productive d... Read More
Parents Push Back Against the Trump Administration's Latest Attack on Working Families Jun. 23, 2025
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
The Trump administration has followed through on its promise to gut the Head Start program. Since Ap... Read More
Hey, Harvard! Pick Up the Phone and Call Canada May. 28, 2025
Harvard is the oldest American university. Its faculty has won more Nobel Prizes and educated more U... Read More
With Harvard, Trump Has Met His Match May. 27, 2025
SAN DIEGO — I always wondered why Harvard turned out so many lawyers. Now, due to overreach by... Read More
Thinking About War and Peace -- All 1,224 Pages of It May. 07, 2025
It usually takes me a day to tap out a rough draft of this column, and I spend the next morning wres... Read More
Your Questions Answered: Trump's First 100 Days May. 05, 2025
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
In the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term, we've seen a whirlwind of executive o... Read More
Is Oklahoma in Danger of 'Satanic School'? May. 02, 2025
The Supreme Court heard arguments on April 30 on whether a Catholic school in Oklahoma named for St.... Read More
Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes a Powerful Argument for School Choice Apr. 25, 2025
During oral arguments in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ... Read More
Five State and Local Entities Safeguarding Our Civil Rights Apr. 01, 2025
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
State and local officials play direct and crucial roles in shaping and safeguarding our civil rights... Read More
No Need To Save an Education Department That Fails Our Kids Mar. 25, 2025
SAN DIEGO — A lot of what I know about public education in America I learned in kindergarten. ... Read More
Trump's Attack on the Department of Education, Explained Mar. 17, 2025
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
This week, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released a statement saying it would cut nearly 50%... Read More
Medicaid Helps Your Children in School Too. You Just Don't Realize It Mar. 14, 2025
In the search for waste, fraud and abuse, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Gover... Read More
Catholic Elementary Schools Lead Public Schools 61-0 in Reading and Math Feb. 05, 2025
The National Center for Education Statistics last week released the results for the National Assessm... Read More
Make Anti-Racism Your New Year's Resolution Dec. 27, 2024
People take part in health challenges all the time, especially as New Year's resolutions. We count o... Read More
Americans Don't Do the First Thanksgiving Story Any Justice Nov. 22, 2024
We've all heard the story of the first Thanksgiving. The plight of pilgrims traveling from England t... Read More
The Dope on Dope in Government-Run Schools Nov. 13, 2024
The National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education, r... Read More
Why, In Our Free Country, Do We Lack Education Freedom? Oct. 16, 2024
What issue could be more important to a nation's future than education? A country is about people. H... Read More
The Chicago DNC Theme Is 'Hope' -- What About Chicagoans? Aug. 22, 2024
President Joe Biden, at the Democratic National Convention, said, "Donald Trump and the Republican f... Read More
Native Truths Aug. 14, 2024
American kids are now taught that before Christopher Columbus wrecked things, peaceful Native Americ... Read More
Why Louisiana's Kids Won't Listen to Their Pious Governor Jul. 03, 2024
For us Texans, there's nothing new about Bible-thumping politicians bedeviling us with the foolishne... Read More
