Month: May 2025
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The Gulf of Critical Thinking
Billionaires are robbing us blind while we’re stuck on infinite scroll. In my classroom, I see a worrying trend of reluctant compliance over curiosity. Are nefarious forces benefiting from this lack of engagement? #PoliticalEconomyofEducation #RethinkEducation
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“I’m Afraid”
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America’s Great Leap Forward?
When I teach Global History, we do a unit on Mao’s China. Mao’s vicious incompetence led to the deaths of some 22 million people (at the lowest estimate). He turned the Republic of China (a somewhat democratic state established by Sun Yat-sen) into “The People’s Republic of China,” which is ironically named (footnote here about…