By Dana Mortenson If 2020 has taught us one thing, it’s that our world is extraordinarily interconnected. The COVID-19 pandemic originated in Wuhan — a city that few people outside of China had heard of before January. Yet by March, the virus had spread to our own backyards. This pandemic…

By Ovie Oghenejobo, Fadesola Ojeikere, Dana Mortenson and Fernande Raine When President Trump announced plans to establish a government body — the 1776 Commission — to promote “patriotic education” in America’s schools, we were concerned by the intentions behind this move; but it also got us wondering: What is a…

By Dana Mortenson and KK Neimann The challenges of education in the time of Covid-19 are unprecedented. Our children are stressed and anxious by the move to distance learning and the unknowns about how the school year will unfold. Children are disconnected from the support of their school networks and…