Don't avoid bringing politics in the classroom. Social change and activism can help students connect content to the world they live in. There is the view that teacher's should be neutral when it comes to their political views. I've always believed that this is very...
Some of the millions of school age students from around the world who demonstrated and marched protesting the lack of attention given to reducing earth's heating from greenhouse gasses. The earth is burning. Some places are uninhabitable now. Enough said. What is...
Since November 8, 2016, the character of the United States swerved away from a democratic nation, and toward one that represses the rights of citizens. From that day forward, the threat that people of color, especially those from Mexico, were rapists and murderers...
Censoring scientists is not new in human history, but some would say that its reached another level, in Russia, but especially in the United States. Russia When I first started traveling to Russia (at the time it was the Soviet Union), a world of dissidents was real....
Global Arms Export Leaders Filling the World With Lethal Weapons Last month, the US Government's President signed into law the 2019 Fiscal Year budget coming in at $1.5 Trillion. The Defense Department got the lions share of the budget at nearly $700 Billion, or...
Seeking new knowledge and answers to pressing questions about the nature of world are obligations of a free and democratic society. Answers, data, and indeed, new questions should be shared around, and discussed in the context of societal questions and problems....
