On the very day that he was inaugurated, January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ”Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” that effectively cut billions of dollars of aid that had been earmarked for international humanitarian efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, malnutrition, and other afflictions around the world.  The order cut...Read More

An opinion piece in yesterday’s New York Times really made a deep impression on me as an educator. It was written by Libyan novelist Hisham Matar, and entitled:  ‘‘Books Can Take You Places Donald Trump Doesn’t Want You to Go.”  Mattar writes about how books can help us ”stumble upon ourselves in the lives and...Read More

Starting today, the Shoah Foundation, an education group from the University of Southern California that disseminates information about the Holocaust to schools, will release a new activity, resource, or professional development opportunity, one per day, for the first 100 days of President Trump’s term of office. The initiative is called ”100 Days to Inspire Respect”...Read More