Editorials & Other Articles

They include the total loss of a free press, the corrupt infusion of the religious cult of Evangelicalism allied with right wing extremism which replaced Washington's confidence in religious moral values being a safeguard, and the undoing of John Dewey's reforms in public education. Dewey built a system by which public education was not only improved and upgraded significantly, but was turned into an instrument capable of supporting the social reforms necessary to deal with human problems, such as poverty, and war. He built a teacher training system that placed teachers who were equipped and educated social reformers into the classrooms. Republicans are engaged in an attack on public education, in many states they've knocked out the social studies requirements, removed the ability of teachers to introduce anything they don't like, pull funding when they can and are trying to mandate forced religion in the classrooms.