Goddard College is the perfect path from homeschooling to a college degree If you come from a homeschooling or unschooling background, you probably know what curiosity feels like. It lives in those questions that no one has been able to answer, the ambitious projects that are difficult to explain, the constant overlap between learning and… Continue reading Take Your Homeschool Experience Into the World
Author: Otto Muller
A Radical Alternative to Online Instruction
The sudden shift to remote instruction has caused a needed moment of critical interrogation in higher education. Colleges, universities, and the students that attend them are all making difficult choices about the Fall semester. At the heart of these decisions lies a question about the fundamental nature of education. Goddard College, a well-kept secret in the… Continue reading A Radical Alternative to Online Instruction
The Fight for the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation
A conversation with Goddard alum Hartman Deetz In the end of March, Secretary David Bernhardt of the Department of the Interior ordered the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take the Mashpee Wampanoag’s 321-acre reservation out of trust. This removed it from the federal reservation system. This federal action uses a legal loophole, arguing that the Mashpee… Continue reading The Fight for the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation
Learning to Decolonize
The current discussion about the future of democracy in the United States is, beneath its surface, also a conversation about the preservation of a settler-colonial project. It is about assuring settler futurity. Colonization is fundamentally achieved through the material theft of land and labor and the elimination and exploitation of people and culture. Educational institutions… Continue reading Learning to Decolonize
Murray Bookchin and threatened democracy in Northern Syria
Turkey’s attack on civilians and People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the Rojava region of Northern Syria is not merely an attack on US allies that effectively fought against ISIS. It is an attack against one of the most ambitious examples of direct democracy in the modern world. In the early 2000s, Abdulla Öcalan, the imprisoned… Continue reading Murray Bookchin and threatened democracy in Northern Syria