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- Mary Byrne’s letter to US Education Department regarding information collection under FERPA 18 January, 2021
- The Sabotage of Public Education 18 January, 2021
- Comments of Mary Byrne to Springfield, MO public schools board on critical race theory 30 December, 2020
- K–12: The Life and Death of the Mind 2 November, 2020
- Hoping for a Stronger Focus on Public Education after November 3, 2020 1 November, 2020
- Stanford Professor Jo Boaler’s Math Revolution and War Against Algebra 2 28 October, 2020
- Academic Fitness 6 October, 2020
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Category Archives: Humanities
Comments of Mary Byrne to Springfield, MO public schools board on critical race theory
Mary R. Byrne, Ed.D.December 8, 2020______________________________________________________________ I’d like to address Focus Area 5, Goal 1 of the 2019-2020 Strategic Plan End of Year Report that will be presented tonight specifically with regard to the following language: Facing Racism training objectives … Continue reading
Academic Fitness
A few years ago I was at a conference of a few hundred History/Social Studies educators, consultants, etc. at the Center for the Study of the Senate in Boston. I was introduced, as The Concord Review and I had recently … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum & Instruction, History, Humanities, K-12, reading, Will Fitzhugh
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Persian Gulf tensions recall a previous “gulf” crisis: The Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Why congressional oversight and investigative journalism must be aggressive Dear Member of Congress, Dear Investigative Journalist, The recent ebb and flow of tensions in and around the Persian Gulf and the president’s family’s business ties to Gulf and Mid-east states … Continue reading
Students Last
Will Fitzhugh The Concord Review 6 April 2017 The great social psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan wrote that the principal problem with communication is that we think we express meaning to others, when in fact we evoke it. That is, what … Continue reading
A New Core
The Concord Review December 2, 2016 Dinosaur scholars like Mark Bauerlein argue that the decline in the humanities in our universities is caused by their retreat from their own best works—literature departments no longer celebrate great literature, history departments no … Continue reading
