Showing posts with label Lorraine Kasprisin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lorraine Kasprisin. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Laws to Protect Students from Feeling Discomfort: The Politicization of a Word and the Effects of Silence

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The growing censorship of books and ideas in public schools across the nation uses the prevention of discomfort of our students as its excus...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

Personal Reflections on Martin Luther King, Jr. on this Day of Remembrance

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Editor: In an earlier post,  I reflected on the speech that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered at my college commencement and the influence it...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

Are the “Right to … Anti-Vaccinators” Aligning Themselves with the Right to Choose Abortions Movement and the Right to Die with Dignity Movement

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Categories are strange things.   They tell us what is included and what is excluded.   They allow certain kinds of questions and render othe...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

July 4th, the Declaration of Independence, and Immigration

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  July 4 th , the Declaration of Independence, and Immigration   I am not sure what it means to celebrate the 4 th of July.   My tow...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Immigration and the 4th of July

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I am not sure what it means to celebrate the 4 th of July.   My town celebrates the 4 th with the usual family activities in the parks a...
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Thursday, August 3, 2017

What George Washington and Donald Trump have in Common

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In these lazy days of summer, we might pepper it with some experiments in thought.   Can you think of anything that our first president, G...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

We are the Constitution’s Founders: a Lesson for the Generations

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We are the Constitution’s Founders: a Lesson for the Generations Someone at the recent Democratic Convention mentioned that we are all th...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Presidential Candidate Ben Carsen and Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

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I have been thinking lately about the paradoxes that are emerging from the 2016 presidential debate and the implications for us as educators...
Monday, February 10, 2014

ACLU of Washington Abandons Community for Coalition: Some Reflections for our Upcoming Issue

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington State had a long tradition of community chapters throughout the state that were deeply embe...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Personal Reflections on the Influence of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Commencement Address Two Months Before the 1963 March on Washington

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I first learned about the March on Washington from Martin Luther King, Jr. who was the commencement speaker at my June 1963 graduation from ...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

The School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Civil Rights and a Civil Liberty Issue

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The School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Civil Rights and a Civil Liberty Issue An Editorial Preview of Upcoming Issue The School-to-Prison Pipel...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

What is Really at Stake in Arizona’s Ban on Mexican American Studies

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I have been asked to capture the essence of what is happening in the Tucson Unified School District in a few paragraphs for the newsletter a...
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Money, Education and Democratic Voice

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I read two articles today that stood in such stark contrast that I had to share them with our readers on this blog. Both describe their effo...
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Our Partner School to Provide Leadership to Community in Promoting Childhood Literacy

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As many of our readers already know, the Educational Institute for Democratic Renewal at the Woodring College of Education at Western Washi...