Allow me to share with you, dear readers of this blog, the journey we are on together. My life as a blogger began with a suggestion from my son, Jeff (the Monster.com founder guy): “Write a blog and drive it through social networking sites to promote your book.” The name of my new book, Seeds of Freedom: Liberating Education in Guatemala, implies a lot of what my adult life has been about. My blog site URL is on message with that: www.seeds-of-freedom.org. But if you are new to it, I want to share with you what you will find as you explore it now.
As a non-native to the world of blogging and social networking, I thought it best to explore the medium and to find my public voice in a related topic. My topic of choice was to analyze public education in the U.S. A couple of insightful articles came my way and I found myself falling into a rabbit hole of scary threats to public education, including serious efforts to privatize it entirely. Continue reading