Our democracy is sick. In our world today, people can choose to live in their own bubbles, have the ability to shelter themselves from opposing perspectives, can find their own “alternative facts” to support whatever opinion they choose, and brush aside information that challenges their beliefs as “fake news.” Both Democrats and Republicans are guilty […]
For far too long Michigan has accepted that countless classrooms won’t have a full-time teacher when they start school. Instead, students in these classes will be subject to a rotating cast of substitutes and other teachers filling in. If the students are lucky, they’ll finally have a licensed teacher a few weeks into the school […]
In a continued trend since the Recession in 2008, a growing number of academics, and economists in particular, have questioned whether or not the investment in higher education is worth the investment of time and money from both individuals and the federal government[1]. There is a wealth of scholarship on the rising costs of college […]
Lintang, a mathematical genius, cycles 24 miles across crocodile-infested swampland to get to school. As he arrives, his friend, Mahar immerses himself into mysticism and the supernatural world. Haran sits, smiling happily, in class even though he doesn’t understand a word of the book he read; and Ikal, breathes a sigh of relief when the […]
The brightly colored barrettes hitting one another sounded like faint wind chimes as we ran and played. Most of us girls had colorful, plastic hair barrettes in an assortment of shapes and sizes that our mothers, or the women who loved us, clipped onto our hair to secure our braids and plaits. We all had […]
For some, like myself, the realities that the Black Lives Matter movement portrays are personal and create trauma. As a Black woman who is constantly sifting through these traumatic realities and trying to shape my work to be a counter story, I am in a pendulum process where I oscillate between trying to desensitize myself […]