Can We Change by 2030?
The timeline of 12 years has stuck to the point that we’re continuing to say it after the first year has passed. We have until 2030, which is 11 years…
Marie Snyder
Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells’s book The Uninhabitable Earth starts out with a repetition of facts that won’t be news to anyone paying attention, but he has a lovely way with words. Four…
Like Rats Jumping a Sinking Ship
My class had a great conversation the other day about discrimination and W.E.B. DuBois’s “double consciousness.” I discussed the theory and solicited for comments, but there were none, as I…
Varoufakis’s Economic History for Dummies
First published six years ago, Varoufakis’s book, Talking to My Daughter about the Economy, addressed to his then 12-year-old daughter, is a quick read in economic theory that would benefit…
Climate Change is About Capitalism
Phil McDuff in The Guardian: “Today’s children, as they become more politically aware, will be much more radical than their parents, simply because there will be no other choice for…
Another Piece of the Puzzle that is our Premier
Nora Loreto on Twitter yesterday: We already know that part of the increase in anxiety and depression is due to straight up loneliness. Kids are already too isolated from one…
More Ford Cuts: Ban Cell Phones, but Mandate Online Courses
From iPolitics: “On top of the change to class sizes, the government is also mandating that all high school students take four of their 30 credits online. This requirement will…
Ford’s Cuts to Education
As reported in a CBC article, Ford’s cuts to education, so far, aren’t nearly as bad as anticipated. Could it mean he actually listened to citizens? Or maybe they’ve been…
Arctic Destruction
I just want to put this document here so I can find it again: Global Linkages: A graphic look at the changing Arctic. It was compiled by the UN Environment…
Seligman’s Hope Circuit
Martin Seligman is famous for a learned helplessness study I wrote about a few years back: In a famous experiment, dogs were put in a compartment and trained to jump…
Are Grades Harmful to Students?
A bold claim was made to me recently that giving students grades on assignments and tests actually impedes their ability to self-assess their work. It’s a big deal when an…
A Different Sort of Electoral Reform
What if politicians were no longer allowed to campaign by burning fossil fuels travelling all over the world?? What if there were a very strict and low limit on campaign…
OFSTED Report
OFSTED recently published a report on what works in schools. Some of the ideas were relevant only to the U.K., but other ideas can be used here. They studied schools…
Amber Alert Red Herring
People were upset to be woken up by the Amber Alert Thursday night. And now, on social media, people are REALLY upset that people were upset to be woken up…
On Fake News and Russian Collusion
In a recent interview in AcTIVism, Glenn Greenwald, one of few people Edward Snowden agreed to speak to, shamed other countries that benefited from Snowden’s revelations but refused to grant…
The Cost of Inequality: Davis 2019
This is a great video of some excellent speakers to listen to while you make dinner or, maybe, do your taxes. In a nutshell, governments need to stop taking out…
Kids These Days!
Here’s Greta Thunberg, 16, at Davos 2019, the World Economic Forum: At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable…
On the Covington Catholic School Incident
The best part of this issue, if there can be a good part, where a bunch of high school boys surrounded Nathan Phillips to get a little kick from exercising…
10 Year Challenge
I posted this challenge on social media recently. This is what we do to be sociable: play online games and forward memes. Discussing the world and screaming into the void…
We Still Have Agency Around Climate Change
There’s one seed left. The Agenda talked with Michael Mann and a few others in the field about “Burnout and Despair: Studying the Climate” Mann focused on the many ways…