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Are Charter Schools Innovative?
Recognizing that some parents investigate charter schools before approaching them, while many others do not, charter school advocates have long sought to attract parents and students by aggressively promoting themselves as innovative and creative in curriculum, instruction, methods, and pedagogy. Indeed, many deregulated charter schools claim to operate according to a distinctive pedagogy intended to […]
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The Teacher’s Burden
Teachers have always been society’s most underestimated heroes. They carry the emotional, intellectual, and social development of entire generations—yet they work inside systems that often value credentials more than contribution, compliance more than creativity, and paperwork more than human potential. This essay explores the invisible load teachers carry — a burden that cannot be quantified, […]
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Understanding Western Praxis
A recent book offers valuable lessons on Western crimes and their global impacts. We are living in a period of intense global transformation. The transition to a multipolar world has brought historical and contemporary tensions to the surface, revealing patterns of intervention and manipulation that have shaped entire regions. Understanding how the West has historically […]
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How Censorship and Smears Are Chipping Away at Democracy and Freedom
Do Journalists Protect or Harm Democracy? Almost half (45%) of teens in a recent survey by The News Literacy Project said journalists harm democracy. Only 56% believed reporters value fairness and accuracy. 80% concluded that news content is subjective, and nearly 70% thought press outlets intentionally add bias to their coverage. The cynicism illustrated in […]
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Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
AI has been the buzzword for quite some time in the 21st century. With the advent of AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot, day-to-day tasks have become significantly easier. Gone are the tough times of hustle and bustle, brainstorming over one thing again and again. With a single click of a strong prompt command, […]
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Mainstream Media?
Allen Forrest is writer, painter, graphic artist and activist who produces many cartoons illustrating the regressivism of capitalist societies. One cartoon by Forrest depicted a man and woman swimming in a shark-patrolled sea of MSM (aka mainstream media) lies. But why call it MSM or mainstream media? Of course, any media would love to be […]
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: The Death of a Radical Writer and Novelist
Ngugi wa Thiong’o (5 January 1938-28 May 2025) Let us now look about us. Where are our national languages now? Where are the books written in the alphabets of our national languages? Where is our own literature now? Where is the wisdom and knowledge of our fathers now? Where is the philosophy of our fathers […]
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