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Puerto Rico and the Supreme Court

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  As we despair about decisions emanating from the High Court of the land, whether about the rights for women or for voting, for starters, we can rightfully rank the Court at the lowest level of confidence ever. At the same time, the populace knows little about the details of Puerto Rico’s relationship to the U.S., nor does it know much about the rights of citizens from U.S. territories...
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Back to Learning About Education

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The fight in politics and in the streets is now coming to a school near us with devastating results. Political trickery is greatly infecting (and often distorting) what takes place in the hallowed corridors of our schools. Too many educators are fighting conditions that interfere with basic schooling.   Certain citizens now want to get into the act of schooling because they believe to know as m...
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Misconstruing Affirmative Action

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Much has been bandied about regarding affirmative action, some pros and some cons. But much emanates from ideological views mired in bias and steeped in politics. Hence, is the public aware of key underlying issues? Let's step back a moment and reflect from a broader perspective: one from the vantage point of history, the other from the reality of privilege and exceptionalism. Higher education ...
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Back to School: Relearning Education

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While much has been bandied about regarding education this past year, too much information is not just inaccurate, but highly misleading, even off the deep end. It is important for educators to set the record straight for the American public with correct information, even if sobering. The U.S. has been failing in educational achievement for nearly half a century. More poignantly, we were provid...
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Schooling and Academic Loss During the Pandemic

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  We tend to forget that the major role schools play in the lives of children is enormous and most evident under crisis and when loss of schooling is evident. And this is not solely about back to basics. The COVID pandemic (2020-2021) underscored this reality in sobering ways. While we never expected closures to occur, it became inevitable over time, with the absence of schooling only high...
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America’s Standing in Global Education

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  With paralysis overwhelming our most cherished levels of government and confusion dominating social media, the level of disinformation has become alarmingly high and quite concerning. With such distraction in the background, it is hard to discern what is truly happening to society, let alone know where we rank on any measure of social skill or leadership competence. This is especially th...
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The Pandemic and Our Schools—Part Two

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  Shamefully for this country, the suggestion of universal masking guidelines from the CDC and vaccinations have merely led to virulent and toxic debates nationwide rather than introspection and consent. For public schools, this condition has already led to devastating results, as too many schools are struggling with the consequences of this diatribe. Astonishingly, this is occurring when ...
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The Pandemic and Our Schools—Part One

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Much has been said about the Covid pandemic and its impact nationwide, though its lessons continue to confound many citizens. It seems we would have learned already critical lessons from the pandemic after more than a year since the outbreak, but sadly this has not been the case.    In the morass of misguidance and blatant pushback, the education of children continues to confront dire consequen...
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