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A Gadfly’s Dozen: Top 13 Education Articles of 2018 (By Me) | gadflyonthewallblog

A Gadfly’s Dozen: Top 13 Education Articles of 2018 (By Me) | gadflyonthewallblog

A Gadfly’s Dozen: Top 13 Education Articles of 2018 (By Me)

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I’m not going to mince words.
This year, 2018, has been a monster.
We’ve been fighting the dumbest and most corrupt President of our lives – Donald Trump. And we’ve been making progress.
Thanks to the midterm election blue wave in the U.S. House, Trump will finally have a check on his power.
We have more black and brown representatives, more women, more nationalities, ethnicities and faiths in the halls of power than ever before.
Charter schools and vouchers are more unpopular today than at any other point in history. High stakes testing is on the decline. And everywhere you look educators and education activists are being heard and making a difference.
But it’s taken an incredible toll on the activist community.
We have had to be out there fighting this ridiculous crap day-in-day-out 365 days a year.
And even then, we’ve suffered devastating losses – family separations at the border, children dying in detention, an increase in hate crimes and gun deaths, all while climate change runs rapidly out of control.
I wish I felt more hopeful. But as I cast my eyes back on the year that was, I’m struck with a sense of bone-deep despair.
I am confident Trump will go down and he will take so many with him.
But the forces of regression, prejudice and stupidity that forced him upon us don’t appear to be going anywhere.
Behind Donald is another Trump waiting to take his place. And behind him another CONTINUE READING: A Gadfly’s Dozen: Top 13 Education Articles of 2018 (By Me) | gadflyonthewallblog

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