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Real and Presidential Danger to Public Education

Executive Orders Harming Public Education If you’ve been hiding under a rock (or your bed), you may have missed the news of the myriad of...

Feb 65 min read

DEmyst-I-fied from a K-12 Perspective Author's Forward: (January 31, 2025): Earlier this week, 4PE approached me about republishing my...

Feb 17 min read

My daughter was physically ill on Tuesday after she witnessed Nazi salutes on the inaugural stage, and executive orders signed to create...

Jan 242 min read

A Tough Week for Transgender Students and Families After years of attacks on rights of transgender students, this past week has seen an...

Dec 13, 202412 min read

A Strong Student Production of Kinky Boots While several hate groups descended on the FCPS high school last weekend, the students,...

May 10, 20247 min read

You can’t just ignore problems away. Author's forward: I wrote this piece on a snowy day in January. Dr. Claudine Gay had just resigned,...

May 1, 20249 min read

We are in the middle of a civil rights battle, fighting for the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in our living room...

Jun 13, 20223 min read

4 of the earliest school houses in Colonial America, (clockwise from top left) The Bray school of Williamsburg taught enslaved and free...

Our country was founded on revolution and activism, yet for some reason the far right wants to suppress the teaching of history and...

The Fourth of July commemorates the day a group of ordinary people turned radicals risked everything to break from tyranny and chart a...