The School as a Commons
A first-edition essay arguing that public schools should be understood not as service providers, test-score factories, or consumer choices, but as democratic commons where children, families, educators, and communities build public life together.
Rethinking American Education
An explainer on why public education became one of America’s central democratic institutions, how privatization and racial inequality have weakened it, and what it would take to build excellent public schools for every child.
Radical Pedagogies & New Futures
A straightforward essay on forest kindergarten, early education, and what it would mean to rethink American schools around children’s full humanity rather than testing, competition, and workforce preparation.
What We Mean by New Wine?
New Wine begins with a simple belief: democracy has to be rebuilt where people actually live — in schools, churches, libraries, union halls, local newsrooms, public meetings, and everyday acts of shared responsibility.