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To evaluate the necessity of the U.S. Department of Education (ED) solely through the lens of stagnant National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores is to mistake a single downstream metric for the health of an entire ecosystem. Critics frequently cite flat 30-year trends in reading and math in the United States as evidence of…
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Near the very end of Braiding Sweetgrass, published in 2013, Robin Wall-Kimmerer writes in her chapter titled Shkitagen: People of the Seventh Fire about the hidden mystery of ‘fire’ for indigenous peoples. Lighting a fire is a sacred process, one that tribal members learn early on in life from their elders. Her father taught her…
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Introduction I was watching the news the other night and was again confronted with devastating flooding, this time in the Northeast, and extremely uncomfortable temperatures and humidity plaguing the World Cup 2026 matches in New York/New Jersey. As a scientist and educator, I follow the scientific evidence and thinking on the question: Is climate change…
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Robin Wall Kimmerer writes in Braiding Sweetgrass about the practices of an “honorable harvest.” She explains that the honorable harvest is not a checklist of things you must do when “harvesting” something in nature. However, “they are reinforced in small acts of daily life.” If there were such a checklist, it might contain many of the…
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Conversations aimed at achieving peace have been in the news over the past few years. We hear it from different angles. Yet, countries to this day are unable to live “peacefully” with one another. When differences arise or a desire to exercise control emerges, war seems to be the default. Why don’t we peacefully dialogue…
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