Wayne Gersen

Education Consultant with 29 years experience as Superintendent. Author of Network Schools blog, a site devoted to opening and changing minds about education.

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@mikearauz @augustpublic Way to go! Wonderful accomplishment!

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@davidsirota At least he's not Trump... a low bar to be sure...

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Gangs DO train leaders. Whether those leaders become drug kingpins or mayors depends on how they are viewed by those in power.

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The Tax Racket continues... and the public seems OK with using tax dollars to support the desire of billionaire football team owners to get spiffy new stadia while letting infrastructure decay

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Getting angry with the intransigence of "the elites" is a dead end. Better to build personal and community resilience to what is coming.

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By reversing Trump's position on the ICC President Biden can take the moral high ground and undercut Putin's "what-about-ism" arguments.

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https://t.co/tX9ldahizf Combine a libertarian-lite Governor with an anti-public education Commissioner of Education whose views are shared by a like-minded legislature, and a small town governed by "free-staters" and you get a toxic mix.

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Rutger Bregman has it right: "the best medicine we have against hate, racism, and prejudice" is to have people with different perspectives to meet each other face-to-face and hear each other out....

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America’s continued short-sightedness and insularity do not bode well for creating peace in the world.

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We should heed Bret Stephens advice: "it’s always wiser to treat your adversary as a canny fox, not a crazy fool"... and Mr. Stephens makes the case the Putin is crazy like a fox...

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We cannot pretend the property in Afghanistan does not exist or is not the result of our action. We need to provide humanitarian aid now.

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Here's hoping our voters will pay a premium for petroleum products to promote peace and preserve the planet. If not, democracy could be in even more danger.

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Without humanitarian aid from democratic nations, peace does not have a chance

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The price of democracy AND the avoidance of climate catastrophe is higher prices for fossil fuel... a premium for peace

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As one who testified in opposition to a copycat "Hatch Act" in Maine the the early 1980s the "Don't Say Gay" bill doesn't seem like anything new...

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Peace Marches in the Square or More Fighter Jets?

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Dithering democracies can prevail over impulsive autocrats... but patience might prevail over both

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Surveys show a slide in support for democracy BUT a closer look at the data offers hope for its continuation.

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The pro-privatization forces have succeeded in creating a perception that parents are unhappy with their public schools. They aren't.

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Democracy cannot be obtained on the cheap, especially when authoritarians are willing to commit war crimes