Public Education
Public Schools Are Religious!
09/2019
I just wrote a letter to a law firm asking for help with a case. I believe the public schools represent the functional religion (a worldview that functions as a religion in people's lives) of secularism, and I want to bring suit against the board of education. My letter, which is really more of a rationale, is intended more to get people thinking than to get a positive response. Our system of justice needs to warm up to the issue before this case will go anywhere… Read More...
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Must We Eat the King's Food?
07/2019
Praise for Public Education
12/2015
The Center for Public Education credits our public schools with success of America. I'm not so certain!… Read More...
Education Models and the Public Good
06/2015
Dr. Diane Ravitch wrote today that people already have "school choice" because they can go to any school they want to if they pay for it. I agree (to some degree!). She goes on to argue that public money should be reserved for the "public schools" because they support the public good. Here is where I differ… Read More...
Our Educational Misunderstandings
04/2013
Little evidence supports the continued funding of Head Start, the federal government’s largest early education program. This is not merely a technical or financial concern, but a challenge to our ideas surrounding the nature of a good education. Read More...