Questions of Civic Proportions: What Can We Make of a World on Fire?

My Fellow Citizens, There’s one phrase that keeps shouting at me over all the images of the protests. The phrase comes from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book, Between the World and Me (2015). Reflecting on his childhood, Coates describes what it was like growing up as a black boy in the

A Student Steps Up: Creative Impatience and the Willingness to Act

[https://www.politicolor.com/2016/05/a-student-steps-up-creative-impatience-and-the-willingness-to-act/screen-shot-2016-05-02-at-8-29-58-pm/] As a High School Civics teacher, I am often and absolutely embarrassed by my own lack of civic activism. While I am encouraging and requiring and rewarding my students for getting involved in something – ANYTHING! – that they care about to protect or