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It’s Been a Week for Questions

On June 1, 2014   /   AISAP, charter schools, Facebook, Independent Curriculum Group, Josie Holford, misogyny, NAISAC15, New Orleans, NotYourFathersSchool, Sandy Hook, Santa Barbara massacre, school segregation  

As I try to sift out the experience of a week, sometimes I reach a point of desperation that comes out in the form of questions. Some recent ones: The post-Santa Barbara conversation over misogyny in the “nerd” community has gone in some interesting directions. But I […]

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MY COUSINS’ SCHOOL

On December 15, 2012   /   gun control, mental health, Newtown, NotYourFathersSchool, Sandy Hook, school shootings, schools, teachers  

My cousins’ school in western Connecticut is in the news. The younger generation has grown and moved on, but their mother—a teacher and counselor, author of a book on grief—lives in town, a few blocks from the school. I haven’t heard from any of them, but their […]

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TRADITIONAL LANDS

I here affirm that the offices from which I work are situated on lands that have a very long and continuing history as a locus of residence, livelihood, traditional expression, and exchange by the Massachusett, Wampanoag, Abenaki, Mohawk, Wabanaki, Hohokam, O’odam, Salt River Pima, and Maricopa people. The servers for this website are situated on Ute and Goshute land. We make this acknowledgment to remind ourselves, our educational partners, and our friends of our shared obligation to acknowledge and work toward righting the inequities and injustices that have alienated indigenous peoples from the full occupation and utilization of these spaces.