Monthly Archives: February 2011

In the Middle East & America, Nothing Left to Fear But . . . Freedom Itself

Friday, February 18th, 2011 at 8:16 am

As waves of Arab protesters keep taking to the streets in countries across the Middle East, and as panels of Egyptian experts begin revisiting their country’s constitution in the wake of their country’s 18-day revolution, I want to take the infamous FDR line and give it a new ring: “The only thing we have to fear is . . . freedom itself.”

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The Wisconsin Teachers Protest: Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right

Thursday, February 17th, 2011 at 2:04 pm

As school systems across the state of Wisconsin cancel another day of classes – the result of massive protests in Madison following Governor Scott Walker’s effort to strip educators of the bulk of their collective bargaining rights — I can’t help but think of the old adage that two wrongs don’t make a right. Continue [...]

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Let’s End the Battle of the Edu-Tribes

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 at 11:20 am

There’s a revolution underway – and no, I don’t mean in Egypt or Tunisia.

I mean the growing, hopeful, tech-savvy, solution-oriented tribe of educators who attended last weekend’s EduCon 2.3 in Philadelphia, an annual event that bills itself as “both a conversation and a conference, ” and a place where people come together, “both in person and virtually, to discuss the future of schools.”

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