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Valerie Vande Panne

Category: Education

Is Unschooling the Way to Decolonize Education?

We are midway through 2020, and struggling through a pandemic-fueled economic crash exacerbated by the federal government’s inadequate “stimulus” efforts.…

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14 Jul 2020

Foraging, and Forging, Connections in Cities

Urban foraging can feed the hungry, prevent wildfires, reduce the use of herbicides, restore ancestral memory and inspire action to…

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17 Dec 2019

The Case to Repair, and Not to Replace

The Right to Repair movement rejects the primacy of disposable culture and proprietary technology. How proposed legislation could notch a…

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17 Jun 2019

Cooperative Acupuncture in the Heartland

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA–In a nondescript strip mall that could be just about anywhere in America, Cait Cain has set up nine…

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2 May 2019

Ditch Corporate Welfare and Fund Agricultural Co-ops

A set of statistics from a new report provides a window into how misplaced economic priorities perpetuate poverty in the…

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23 Nov 2018

Burning Man is sooo passé

Or, never trust a gathering of tens of thousands of white people. I spend a lot of my time writing…

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27 Aug 2018

Oklahoma’s Revolution

OKLAHOMA—Oklahoma is in the midst of a revolution, with rolling teacher strikes statewide. Teachers have taken over the state capitol…

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16 Apr 2018

How Privatization Sparked the Massive Oklahoma Teacher Uprising

OKLAHOMA—On April 2, an estimated 30,000 Oklahoma teachers walked out of schools across the state, some traveling hundreds of miles…

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12 Apr 2018

Dayton Is Making the Library a Must-Visit Destination

With recording studios, dazzling art installations, and rooms equipped for virtual reality, the city is future-proofing an oft-neglected urban amenity.…

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2 Apr 2018

Cooperative Banking for Black Lives

MINNEAPOLIS—On an unseasonably warm Friday in late January, African-American business owners, activists, advocates, musicians, politicians and artists toasted with a…

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27 Feb 2018

Is higher education worth the price tag?

If you want a higher education in the United States, you need to have money. The average cost of a college…

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22 Feb 2018
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