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Losing Our Soul–Silencing Heart, Mind and Voice

If you haven’t read Doug Martin’s piece on the  planned destruction of what remains of the ethos that is Community as well as the very heart of true Charity (take some time to think about the real meaning of this word), please set to it with all speed and attention.  It is a detailed report [...]

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Islam and the Free Market of Privatized Education: “Friending” the Gülen Charter Schools

[Sit back and feast on this cornucopia of "insider-trading" in Indiana Education.  Is it just me or is there just an odd linguistic "reality" called forth in this partnership?  "Indian(a)" and "Turkey" equals an (immigrant) Pilgrim conquest of the "free market" in education?  Which group is instructing which in the use of a fish to [...]

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Who Runs the Indianapolis Public Schools?

Who runs our IPS? “The crisis is not about education at all. It’s about power.” ~ James BaldwinOverview:Traditionally, local school [...]

What is Learning?

Question: Define the purpose of guttering on a house. Answer: Choose the response that represents your thinking. a. to catch [...]

The Great Lawsuit (Audio)

This is the essay that led to Fuller’s longer treatment on the Rights of Women titled Woman in the 19th Century. [...]

Audio Recording of “The Sleepers” (1855) by Walt Whitman

An audio recording by Doug Storm of “The Sleepers” (1855) by Walt Whitman. (18:48) *** I wander all night in [...]

Audio Recording of Whitman’s (1855) “Song of Myself”

Audio recording of Whitman’s (1855) “Song of Myself” by Doug Storm (1:49:42) *** Do I contradict myself? Very well then [...]

An Audio Recording of “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

An audio recording by Doug Storm of “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (42:16)