The Math Revolution
An Atlantic article reviewing the practice of teaching math through problem solving.
The League of Women Voters Refuses to Help Perpetuate a Fraud
“It has become clear to us that the candidates' organizations [Democrat and Republican] aim to add debates to their list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and honest answers to tough questions. The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public.” League of Women Voters League Refuses to “Help Perpetrate a Fraud” NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 3, 1988 LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”
Schooling the World the White Man's Last Burden
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.
Democracy and Education
First published in 1916, John Dewey’s Democracy and Education is regarded as the seminal work on public education by one of the most important scholars of the century. In this classic work Dewey addresses the serious challenge of providing quality public education in a democratic society. He calls for the complete renewal of public education, arguing for the fusion of vocational and contemplative studies and for the necessity of universal education for the advancement of self and society.
Civil Disobedience
Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a moral duty to avoid allowing a government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated to write this essay by his disgust with the U.S. system of enslavement and the illegal land grab commonly referred to in the U.S. as the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), and in Mexico as the Intervención Estadounidense en México (U.S. intervention in Mexico).
John Trudell
John Trudell was a poet, recording artist, actor, civil rights activist and world-renowned speaker whose international following reflects the universal language of his words, work and message. Columbus was lost. He didn’t have an idea what planet he was on, he didn’t have a clue where he was at. And then I think of the descendants of Columbus…they’re lost too. They don’t know where their lives are going. There’s a way to live and a way to exist.
Radio Open Source
Open Source is as a North American conversation with global attitude. Christopher Lydon recorded the original podcast in 2003 with Dave Winer. The rest is history in the making.
The Drunken Indian
“I will not become you.” John Trudell discusses the “drunken Indian” stereotype.
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