Eric took two of my semester elective classes as a senior in high school, I suspect as much to hang out with a group of friends rather than his intense interest in the material. That group of students were uniquely in tune with my taste in both music and film, and we constantly talked about …
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This is a super simple assignment. A number of years ago I searched the Congressional record for proposed Constitutional amendments. I had a very long list, but I winnowed it down to one page. The next year I did the same thing again. Eventually I began to see a pattern of the same amendments being …
The passing on Civil Rights titans John Lewis and Rev. C.T. Vivian a couple days ago felt in many ways like the end of an era. Though I’ve followed Lewis’s career in Congress, I always thought of him as the last of the greats, people whose black and white images I would see as in …
Probably the biggest “event” of the week for me was the amount of time and focus I spend on riding my bike. I rode three times during the week, but each time was over 20 miles, including a 29-mile ride, which is the longest ride I’ve ever done. Thanks to John Marks, I learned a …
Undoubtedly pieces of this assignment were appropriated from others, and as usual I apologize to anyone whose work goes uncredited here. I’m happy to remedy that if anyone lets me know. This is one of the better lessons I do early in the school year, not only because it moves super quickly, is student-centered, and …
I have no clue what year it was that I was able to acquire a video camera to film the Model Congress meetings, but it would have to have been in the 90s. I probably borrowed the camera from our librarian Barbara Wilson, still my favorite co-worker ever. It was a direct to VHS camera, …
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Last week I rambled about an array of unanswered questions in connection to the decisions school districts, parents, and educators will have to make about what they will be doing in the fall. Since then there’s been a lot written on various sides of the issues and my position is becoming a lot clearer. Absent …
Part two of our dialogue covers an array of important issues related to racial justice. We’re just scratching the surface here, of course, but hopefully Corregan’s contributions will give readers some things to think about, and his references to others will give people a road map of where to find more on particular subjects. Although …
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I’m going to reveal a dirty little secret in this blog, but you’re going to have to actually read it to get there. I could have put that in the headline like some cheesy clickbait, but I prefer my readers be here for the right reason. Before the AP U.S. Government and Politics revision two …
As the summer drags on and we start getting to the point where new shows that were delayed by the pandemic don’t come on, there’s going to really feel like a lack of quality TV available for those of us who already have watched “everything.” I’ve taken to watching some things that slipped under the …
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