All Blog Posts Tagged 'social_challenges' (2)

I just started reading Howard Zinn's You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (1994) and stumbled upon a couple of paragraphs that raise questions in my mind about teaching and activism. Here are those paragraphs copied from page 7: When I became a teacher I could not possibly keep out of the classroom my own experiences. I have often wondered how so many teachers manage to spend a year with a group of students and never reveal who they are, what kind of… Continue

President-Elect Barack Obama visited The Washington Post editorial board yesterday (1/15/09) for an interview, an important part of which had to do with education and public service. (Because the embed code provided by the Post doesn't seem to launch the audio of the interview [see below], here's a link to the Post webpage where it does work.) Continue