Public Education


Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies
Romeo and Juliet
The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
Dirt to Dignity: Why Cleanliness is Patriotism
Rich Kid Poor Kid: The battle for public education: Vantage Point Issue 5
The Things We Never Say
A Coney Island of the Mind
The First Man
Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
“ But staying silent is a kind of complicity, and when people don't push back, censorship efforts gain traction, and one day I'm afraid it will be too late. What the general public needs to know is that these people won't just stop at censoring books or ruining libraries. They will continue to wreak havoc on our public education system until it is irreversibly broken. White Christian nationalists want to decide for everyone what is allowed. They claim their parental rights are being taken away, bu ...more ”
― Amanda Jones, That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Larken Rose
“ Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using different words, 'property taxes' are just a Mafia turf racket using different words. For the former, if you earn a living on the gang's turf, they extort you. For the latter, if you own property in their territory, they extort you. The fact that most people still imagine both to be legitimate and acceptable shows just how powerful authoritarian indoct ...more ”
― Larken Rose

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