Students who are taught a subpar, silly, and inaccurate curriculum are at a serious disadvantage in life. Their futures are being compromised.
The Central Bucks School Board is dominated by six members whose recent policies have restricted preventative health, denied gender rights, banned books and suppressed freedom of speech. If you look at what’s happening across the country, I fear their next agenda is to remove Black History from our district’s curriculum.
We cannot ignore the ugliness of the status quo, with fear driving people apart, books being banned, and teachers training for active shooter drills. We need to keep fighting to protect public education.
Senate Bill 839 encourages unity in diversity by providing the opportunity to learn, understand, and value different cultures in classrooms across the Commonwealth.
A review of “Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal,” by Dr. Bettina L. Love.
History is a conversation, unending and always open to new discussion and insights. What Hillsdale is pushing is a completely other view of what history even is, a view that looks remarkably like indoctrination.
Initiatives like Gender-Inclusive Biology, Project Biodiversity, and Welcoming Schools offer resources to help adapt curriculum to acknowledge and celebrate variation in the living world.
In the face of increasing attacks, some librarians have chosen to leave the profession altogether, while others continue to go to work in fear.
Despite public outcry, the board approved the immediate use of Vermilion’s ninth grade social studies course, but pushed the balance of revised curricula to the 2024-25 school year.
Naomi is a Pennsbury High School graduate and rising junior at the University of Pittsburgh. She has written 21 articles for us so far, with more on the way.
Doylestown’s Olcay Ayata, a Turkish-American Muslim, feels unwelcome and unsafe — even as a citizen.
After covering weeks of abductions and disappearances of immigrants at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City starting on May 29, I remain stupefied that I am witnessing the harvesting of human beings in real time, writes photojournalist Michael Nigro.
Thankfully, there are brave faith leaders standing firmly in the breach, refusing to let the Bible and the church be hijacked by Christian Nationalists.
Environmentalists say that allowing the industry to drill in Pennsylvania’s part of the watershed would risk contaminating drinking water for some 15 million people with toxic chemicals.
