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Short Read of the Week for September 8, 2022

This morning we discussed six great articles, two of them on the subject of education by the same author (Anya Kamenetz), and ultimately decided to recommend this powerful and important piece as the one thing you should read this week if you don’t read anything else:

Education in America: School is For Everyone
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/opinion/us-school-history.html
[our copy here]

Why is this article so important? Just read into it until you get to this passage, and you will know: “Buchanan intuited that if rich white people could be convinced that they were justified in no longer paying for public schools, it opened the door to resist all taxation, all public goods.”

We also chose to recommend this:

Evangelical Group Releases Climate Change Report, Urges a Biblical Mandate for Action
https://wordandway.org/2022/08/29/evangelical-group-releases-climate-change-report-urges-a-biblical-mandate-for-action/
[our copy here]


Direct link to item: https://tillcodems.org/whats-on-your-mind/2022/9/13/short-read-of-the-week-for-september-8-2022.