A reading list that includes Bible stories will be required of five million Texas public school K-12 students beginning in 2030. Texas and other states are already well down the road of illegally forcing religion into public schools.
Eyes on Education
đź‘€Eyes on Education: Black history comes to Greenfield Village
June 30, 2026On June 12, Dr. Sullivan and Mrs. Richie Jean Jackson’s home–a key hub in planning the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March–formally opened at the Henry Ford Museum’s Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich.
Eyes on Education đź‘€: Backlash growing against tech in education
May 7, 2026AI is drastically changing education. Pausing its use and respecting educators’ experience with students is urgently needed. The April 21 resolution to implement major limits on educational technology in Los Angeles is an example of parents and educators working together for quality education.
Eyes on Educationđź‘€: March 2026
March 5, 2026Takes up: a whitewashed required curriculum for introductory sociology in Florida’s 28 public community colleges; a loan-limit policy by the Federal Student Loan Program that could have disastrous implications for the medical field; and implications of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” in Indiana colleges.
Eyes on educationđź‘€: Education 2025–Creating resistance for 2026
February 5, 2026In Oklahoma, Maine, Florida and Chicago, Van Gelder gives us a view of battles in defense of public and higher education. The rightist moves against state and local K-12 school districts and even individual teachers, staff, parents and students attempts to instill fascism and Christian Nationalism from the cradle.
đź‘€ Eyes on Education: Back to school
October 5, 2025A view of the educational situation in several states of the U.S., from budget cuts and ideological repression to language discrimination and the introduction of AI in classrooms.
Eyes on Education đź‘€ : April 2025
April 25, 2025Takes up: Administrators, teachers, staff, parents and supporters protest bills in Indiana that would reduce public education funding; the fight against a program that separates low-performing schools from their geographical districts in Tennessee; and Trump misusing Title IX to strip Maine of education funding.