On Historic “Decision Day,” SCOTUS Sends LGBT Americans Mixed Messages
For LGBT legal nerds like me, June 26 is an important day. Every major pro-equality…
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DeVos Literally Can’t Name a Discriminatory Policy She’d Refuse to Fund
In a tense exchange with Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark on Wednesday, Secretary of Education Betsy…
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Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement
Perhaps Betsy DeVos can be forgiven for imagining that America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities…
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Teaching World Religion in the Dumpster Fire
How different might this election cycle have been had more voters been willing to be curious about, understand, accept, or even embrace a pluralist nation, rather than panic in the face of the other?
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Shades of Christian Reconstructionism in Trump Education Pick, Betsy DeVos
Education is arguably the most important front in the battle to bring the Kingdom of God to bear on contemporary culture.
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“Burka Avenger”: Pakistan’s Middle Class Gets a Feminist Cartoon
A mild-mannered schoolteacher doubles as an education-defending Muslim heroine.
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There are only two significant problems with that charge.
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The Religion of Self Improvement Grinds On Despite Hard Times for Grads
Graduation time—and the living ain’t easy.
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Islam, Essential to America?
This book is my own effort to equip myself to talk about and engage with the nation’s fastest growing religion, to offer a snapshot of one of its most influential institutions, and to tell the stories of the students and scholars who have taken up the challenge of this experiment in American education.
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Protesting Yoga in Schools, But Welcoming Bible Study
When is touching your toes just touching your toes, and when is it an effort to indoctrinate small children in Hinduism?
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