An English Teacher's Homepage
Paul maintain a blog which focuses on concerns in education, rhetoric, literature, science, and other nerdy topics
All opinions expressed in Paul's blogs are solely his own. They do not represent the opinions of his employers and/or associates.
I strongly believe we should focus our investment, financially and otherwise, on supporting and reforming traditional public schools when needed. DeVos, if confirmed, threatens the survival of traditional public schools, but she is far from the only threat. A national obsession with charter schools, while not always misguided, is a more immediate and long-lived challenge. Both issues must be confronted in the defense of public schools.
Read MoreTrump’s election shifts more responsibility onto each of us to build the sort of social discourse that will likely be challenged in the years to come....We must hold ourselves and others to a higher standard in our social discourse. We must strive to have even greater empathy, including for those we resent. We have a more exigent obligation to promote and enact social justice....Our future as a sane and functional society may well depend on our ability to enact decency in the face of dissolution.
Read MoreThis is the website of Paul Binkley, an English teacher from Colorado.
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