In recent weeks those of us in the San Diego Community College District were taken aback when a handful of uninformed folks took to the email DL to regale all of us with a torrent of misinformation. Many of us were dismayed by the display. While the number in our...
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It’s been a difficult, stressful period for most of us dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic for more than a year now. We’ve learned new skills, done emergency professional development to address our dramatically transformed work landscapes, tried to be there for...
After months of foreboding that the California state budget would be a nightmare filled with cuts for our schools and colleges due to revenue loss during the pandemic, things turned around quite dramatically. Unforeseen revenue came in as a result of Proposition...
In recent weeks, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its most alarming report yet on the climate crisis. The UN Secretary General hailed it as a “code red for humanity” in that it outlined how the dire effects of continued...
VOX: Conservatives have appropriated critical race theory as a convenient catchall to describe basically any serious attempt to teach the history of race and racism. It’s now a prop in the never-ending culture war, where caricature and bad faith can muddy the waters....
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) documents that while unionization rates have continued to decline, “union workers have seen less job loss than non-union workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.” As the EPI analysis outlines: “Where workers have been...
