Category: Wisdom
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What does it mean when students and faculty disappear? When the very institutions charged with cultivating the next generation of global leaders—our colleges and universities—become sites of surveillance and exile, we are witnessing not only an educational crisis, but a moral one. Over the past few weeks, reports have surfaced from Harvard, the University of…
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In March 2025, I raised an alarm on Cloaking Inequity when tributes to Jackie Robinson—one of the most iconic figures in American history—were quietly removed from Department of Defense webpages. That post, The Erasure of Black History in the Name of an Assault on DEI, chronicled a disturbing moment: the U.S. government not only failed to honor a…
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In recent months, we’ve witnessed a barrage of executive orders—a deliberate and coordinated attempt to reverse decades of progress in public education and civil rights. So far, I estimate that at least 15 executive orders have been introduced or enacted that directly threaten the educational landscape, targeting everything from inclusive curriculum and gender identity policies to voting rights,…
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The Trump administration has launched a full-frontal assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in public education. In its latest power move, the U.S. Department of Education has issued another threatening ultimatum to every state and school district in America: Sign a letter disavowing DEI or risk losing federal funding. At the heart of this…
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That’s one of the hard-hitting questions we explored during my recent conversation with Jesse Turner—on The Readman Truth to Power Hour on 103.5 WNHH. Jesse and I went deep. We talked about what’s really at stake in education right now—from the halls of Washington, D.C., to classrooms across the country. I shared some of the insights I’ve…
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