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About Citizen Education

This is a labor of love. Citizen Ed is an artisan, homemade, organically sourced free-range weekly education reader featuring fresh perspectives from a diverse network of citizen journalist. Our contributors tell personally meaningful stories intended to challenge stale conventions, unproductive dominant narratives, and fixed ideological positions.

No I don’t have funding for this. Yes it costs money to make it happen. There will be typos, rough edges, and unruly text.

Education is power and marginalized people need more of it.

About Citizen Stewart

I began blogging years ago to make sense of my own failed education, and to think critically about the systems I feared would miseducate my child. Writing was something I would do at night to relive the tension between high aspirations for what my son might achieve through school, and the fear it was a statistical certainty he would not succeed academically due to my family’s low income and spotty educational background.

I once was a kid that didn’t do well in school. That had consequences in my adult life that made the importance of a solid education totally clear. As a parent who was deeply frustrated with the school choices available to my family it felt like I had a lot of personal thoughts to contribute to the debate about public schools.

So, without much preparation I spent many nights sharing my thoughts online. I have been blogging about education at citizenstewart.org for several years now.

In that journey I met others who also have plenty to say about public schools. I opened my blog to some of their thoughts, but it felt like the wrong place. My branded blog is personal and a bit self-interested.

So, I decided to create an offshoot to highlight the voices of brilliant friends and colleagues.

Why is there a need for such perspectives?

Because there is an avalanche of focus-grouped, market-tested, fuzzy feel good language about public schooling that diverts attention from the fact that far too many students are not getting their educational needs met.

More than ever, we need real public education for an educated public.

Citizen Stewart

2 Comments

  1. I was interested in your comment, “to make sense of my own failed education…” I too had a rather “failed” education. Can you direct me to a place where you recound your “failed education.” I would be interested to learn about it.

    David Triche

  2. I was interested in your comment, “to make sense of my own failed education…” I too had a rather “failed” education. Can you direct me to a place where you recound your “failed education.” I would be interested to learn about it. Thanks

    David Triche

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