by Daniel | Feb 24, 2017 | Democracy, Education, Parenting
It is hard not to watch the drama being played out in our nation’s capital. The new administration is settling into its leadership, and is ambitiously working to chart a dramatically different course for America. Some see this shift of priorities as “the draining of...
by Daniel | Feb 9, 2017 | Democracy, Education, Teaching
Joseph Bailey’s comment on my last post included this thought: Is a representative democracy viable in a complex system where the neurology of people can’t keep pace with the level of changes being forced upon them? This question gets at a core struggle for our...
by Daniel | Jan 26, 2017 | Democracy, Education, Education Policy, Teen coping skills
Earlier this week I was at a luncheon and found myself sitting near some folks I did not know. As often happens these days, the topic of our new federal government came up in our discussion. One of the people at the table, a Canadian, asked me to try and explain what...
by Daniel | Dec 4, 2016 | Democracy, Education, Parenting, Teen coping skills
Critical thinking, as defined by Dan Rockmore, faculty at Dartmouth College, is “A multi-stage process wherein first the facts of an issue or phenomenon are determined, and then the issue of interest is subjected to a reasoned examination from multiple points of...
by Daniel | Nov 20, 2016 | Democracy, Education, Education Policy
This is not a political essay. I have no desire to add to the cacophony of Internet political punditry. Nor do I want to use this platform to take sides in our hyper- polarized national dialog. But having just voted in my eleventh presidential election, I’m left with...
