By Anthony Cody What impact has Bill Gates had on the world since he launched the most wealthy tax-exempt foundation in the world? We finally have a book that takes this on, from a critical perspective. “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire” was written by journalist Tim …
By Paul Horton. The Republican assault on American History begins and ends with distortion. The clear intent of attacks on political correctness, books, and “wokeness” is to limit the free speech of Americans who wish to continue the project of “perfecting” the American experiment through reform. In a …
By Anthony Cody. I recently returned from a trip to the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. I went to support a friend, Chris Esponda, who was returning to the town where he was born and lived for the first five years of his life. Chris is a Dreamer, the name given to immigrants who came to the US as young …
by Paul Horton “Mr. Whorton, we cannot understand a wurd you sayin! You talk waaay tooo fas and you use words that are too big! You talk about places we never heard of! We don’t know nothin about Palestine and Isral. Most of us ain’t been pas Austin! We tired of you go’in on and on! You need to learn how …
By Paul Horton. History teaching in the United States is at a crossroads. In many states whitewashing and censorship have replaced Black history and the history of resistance and reform movements. What passes for “Western Civilization” in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, and Idaho might be closer to “white …
By Anthony Cody. A colleague with whom I worked in facilitating PBL workshops several years ago recently posed a question that comes along for many of us as we move through the inevitable stages of our lives. Do I still have important things to offer other teachers now that I have been out of the classroom for a …
By Paul Horton I am finishing up a course that I recently developed on Twentieth Century Latin American History in film that uses several films including “Roma,” “The Official Story,” “Missing,” “EL Norte,” and “Sin Nombre” as a way to create discussions about recent Latin American History. …
By Anthony Cody. Follow me on Twitter at @anthonycody A video of Betsy DeVos responding to questions from Lucille Roybal-Allard of the House Appropriations Committee hearing has gone viral, and has been watched now by many thousands of people. I appear in the background, shaking my head as DeVos asserts that …
By Michael Finn and Michael Jones. As the dust settles on the 6-day UTLA strike, we can see education policy in the City of Los Angeles with fresh perspectives and fresh options. The demands of Los Angeles teachers were supported by an overwhelming majority of parents, students, and community members. Lower class …
By John Thompson. The Justice for Julius rally at the Oklahoma state Capitol began as a spiritual gathering with a prayer and a remembrance of Paul Howell, the victim of the 1999 carjacking murder for which Julius was improperly convicted. Then the evidence which was not heard by the mostly white jury who sent …
