Education

Precarious Status of Independent Study in California shared by Heddi Craft You may have heard that the big bill to change charter school law has been tabled but there are still some problematic [...]

Gateway School provides a Neighborhood Nectar Corridor by Petra Bryan What do cherries, blueberries, pumpkin pie, and chocolate all have in common? They all need pollinators! That’s one of [...]

Taking aim at alternative ed…again by Suki Wessling May 2021 It’s not news that administrators in public education are generally not fans of alternative education. I live in possibly the most [...]

What can we parents learn from the contrasting stories of Gillian and Libby? The Remarkable Life of Gillian Lynne by Marianne Sunderland Growing up in England in the 1930s,  Gillian Lynne was [...]

Museums and Galleries Celebrate Reopening Museums and galleries across the Santa Cruz County area join together to welcome visitors back during Museums Month. Museums, galleries, and other [...]

A Cautionary Perspective on Social Justice Teaching  by Martin Rochester, 11.1.2017 A recent front-page story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about “teaching social justice” in K–12 classrooms [...]

Creating the World We Want “During my first learning journey with MMS students to South Africa in 2009, I was struck by the fact that the South Africans I met spoke so openly about race, [...]

American Democracy, American Racism The Mount Madonna School (MMS) public lecture series based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) continues on March 18 at 7:00pm with [...]

A Letter from a most thoughtful educator “Dear Friends and Colleagues: I am writing today about the children of this pandemic. After a lifetime of working among the young, I feel compelled [...]

A Book-banning Debate Over How to Teach Antiracism The Burbank Unified School District has removed five books from instruction: “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “Roll of Thunder, Hear My [...]