by admin | Oct 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
As published in the Maine Voices column in the Portland Press Herald, October 30, 2023. Let’s Build Hope for Youth through Policy Action While we are still reeling from the impact of the mass shooting in Lewiston on October 25th, let’s politicize this moment. You...
by admin | Oct 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Congress is in chaos. It is barely news given how many times we have been told to brace for a government shut down. The House, speakerless for weeks now, has given the problem another dimension, and it is easier to see some of the social underpinnings of the crisis....
by admin | Oct 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m impressed. Quinn Mitchell, 15, is engaged, determined, knowledgeable, civically responsible, and seemingly fair-minded. As Shannon Larson described, Mitchell is honestly interested in politics and has a strong knowledge of history, giving him perspective with...
by admin | Jun 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
What messages do we send when we bring the students with the highest GPAs up on the stage each year? We tell them that the most important thing is achieving more (academically) than their classmates. We tell them that even though “collaboration” is perhaps...
by admin | Jan 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
I was twelve years old and had run from the school four times. The moons were whole. The assiduous government agents were waiting, waiting, waiting generation after generation without fail for the defeated tribes to stop running. The agents, hired hunters for the...
by admin | Feb 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Education and the Nature of Childhood By Joan Jaeckel (Originally published on Medium) This post features an essay, originally curated by me for a special issue on “socially responsible education” in Green Money Journal, by Arthur Zajonc,...
