Nothing says “we simply don’t care about the future of our kids” any louder than our cutting funding for public education.
Category: Sustainability
New Jeopardy! Champ Is an Attorney for The Sierra Club
From the Sierra Club: Tune in to Jeopardy tonight to see Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program Staff Attorney Megan Wachspress! Megan is an associate attorney with the Beyond Coal Campaign. Before joining the Sierra Club, Megan worked at a public …
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Jefferson Speaks To Changing Times
Here are a few thoughts from one of our founding fathers, who stood among the most enlightened and intelligent people of the day. It’s hard not to read this and wonder: where along the way did we Americans lose our …
American Education Faces a New Challenge
It’s common for Americans to lament that things like penmanship (cursive) are no longer taught in our schools. I’ve never been too sympathetic here, on the basis that there are only so many minutes in a school day, and everything …
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Why Is There So Little Time Spent on Philosophy in Our Schools?
Translation: • Because philosophy is emancipating • Because philosophy teaches good, and changes students’ lives • Because free thinking is a danger to power • All the above
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I Speak as a Citizen of the World
Here’s the “thought for today” from Wordsmith.org: We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, “I speak as a citizen of the world” without others saying, “God, what a nut.” -Lawrence Lessig, professor and activist (b. …
What Our Colleges Do
From the “Foundation for Individual Rights in Education”: Free speech doesn’t just mean having everyone agree with you and living in an echo chamber. There are lots of things that I don’t agree with, but if someone else believes those …
Getting Money Out of Politics
Here’s a guy with a sane perspective. Nice going. Let’s make this happen.
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Most Gun Owners Are Good People
It’s important to keep in mind that most gun owners are not NRA members, and, generally, vehemently disapprove of the organization’s indifference to safety, which make the danger of mass shootings many times higher than it would be if guns …
Psychiatric Drugs and Mass Shootings
The assertion in the meme here is simply false. Iceland, Canada, Australia, and Sweden have virtually identical rates of consumption of drugs like antidepressants to the United States (12% – 15%), though they have almost no gun violence. That’s because, …
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