Planet Earth II Could Be Best Nature Doc Ever Made (trailer)

10 years ago Planet Earth changed our view of the world. Now we take you closer than ever before. This is life in all its wonder. This is Planet Earth II. A decade ago, the landmark television series Planet Earth redefined natural history filmmaking, giving us the ultimate...

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Prince Ea Just Put The School System on Trial and Found it Guilty of Killing Free Thought

Albert Einstien once said "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid". Today Prince Ea puts modern schooling on trial.

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What Are Democratic Schools?

Imagine a school where children and teenagers are accorded all the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship; where students truly practice, rather than just read about, the principles of free speech, free association, and freedom to choose their own activities...

Alternatives to School

The Pedagogy of the Meaning of Racism: Reconciling a Discordant Discourse

Racism is a term on which a great deal of discourse does and should turn in all realms of social work theory, practice, policy, and research. Because it is a concept heavily freighted with multiple and conflicting interpretations and used in a wide variety of ways, the idea...

Carlos Hoyt, Jr.

Baltimore Elementary School is Teaching Yoga and Mindfulness

When one of the kids at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in West Baltimore acts out, chances are she'll be sent not to the principal's office but to the Mindful Moment room, a soothing space with comfy cushions and beanbags, lit by glowing pink Himalayan salt lamps. It's...

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How Gardening Helps Students Grow

Jaureguiberry's elementary school is giving kids in Uruguay a first-hand look at environmental sustainability. The school was built with recycled materials, and students grow indoor and outdoor edible gardens.

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Was America Ever Great?

There's an old cliche that says "history is written by the victor." Unfortunately, that's probably true. Well here's some American History 101 from a less biased perspective.

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Dear Fellow Jillb4 Hill Folks and Berniecrats

Dear fellow JillB4 Hill folks and Berniecrats, a part of me really does not want to expend energy posting to all my center-left groups about the necessity of preventing Trump from winning the election. The necessary historical context in which to look at how detrimental a...

Creed J Shepard

Why School Sucks

I hope all of my teachers see this. - Prince EA

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15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

Charles Eisenstein is one of the first people I heard talk about the "new story," synthesizing a diverse movement that has been emerging for the last several decades. When I go back far enough, I first heard about these ideas from reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn when I was...

Tim Hjersted

Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents

Shefali Tsabary's latest book argues that parents need to focus more on themselves and less on their children.

Diana Divecha

Success at School Vs Success in Life

Many people who do brilliantly at school turn out not to do so well at life. Why?

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Law Professor's Epic Response to Black Lives Matter Shirt Complaint

A first year law school student wrote a complaint about her professor having worn a Black Lives Matter T-shirt during class. The professor’s response is priceless.

Social Design Notes

The Scientific Way to Train White People to Stop Being Racist

No one wants to be called fragile. And if you’re white, what you feel reading the title of this article may be indicative of the term. “White fragility” refers to white people’s low emotional tolerance for discussing topics of race and racism.

Katherine Kirkinis and Sarah Birdsong

Cultivating Empathy for the NEXT Crisis

A central question for this moment in history is how do we collectively navigate a crescendoing wave of crises and move toward planetary resilience and thriving?

Joe Brewer

Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids

One of the most important skills we can teach our kids is empathy. Empathy is the ability to see and value what another person is feeling or experiencing. When we see someone in pain and feel that response in our own gut, that’s empathy. When we see someone crying tears of...

Steve Palmer

My First Journey With Psilocybin Mushrooms

In May 2013, my whole world shifted. At the time, I was living in Amsterdam and I began to feel the call to the Peruvian Amazon to work with the sacred plant medicine ayahuasca.

Arianna Joy

Seven Must-Have Skills for the 21st Century

We live in a world that moves faster than we do. Trying to keep up can be an overwhelming task that at times feels hopeless, like we are falling further and further behind—but it doesn’t have to. We are fully capable of adapting to the changing times, and it begins with...

Tommy Lehe

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

While teaching means different things in different places, seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills.

Meryn Callander

Greed 101: Hedge Funds Bringing Poverty and Suffering to Places Like Puerto Rico

They're called "vulture funds" and they make a killing off of places like Puerto Rico - sometimes literally.

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In the Absence of the Village, Mothers Struggle Most

Dear Mothers, I’m writing you today because I can no longer contain the ache in my gut and fire in my heart over an injustice that you and I are bearing the brunt of.

Beth Berry

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

1. We expect children to be able to do things before they are ready.

Jan Hunt

"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame

A five-month-old baby is lying in his mother's arms. He is close to sleep, then wakes and begins to cry. His mother tells him that he should stop being a naughty boy, and that she will be cross with him if he doesn't sleep.

Robin Grille and Beth Macgregor

What Is Biomimicry, Anyway?

Let’s play a game. It’s called “Who made it?” and it goes like this: I’ll describe a series of objects, and you guess who made them. If you guess all of them correctly, there will be a special prize waiting for you at the end of this article. Ready? Let’s begin.

Grist staff

How Many of These Outlaw Legends Do You Know?

There's a lot of mythology around outlaws, with some viewed as heroes and some as villains. Here are 6 legendary outlaws who you might not have head of.

Andrew Butler

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

This is the crash-course in 'what the hell is going on here' that we surely all wish we got from our education growing up but probably never did.

Films For Action

Will There Still Be Ivory Towers in a World Without Elephants?

Universities have become detached places for the pursuit of career advancement — a fantasy world in these turbulent times.

Joe Brewer

Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love

Parenthood lies deep within us. We are wired to help our little ones survive and prosper. Modern life, however, has removed us from our natural environment. It can be hard to raise a child in world of fear and distractions. Science and psychology bring back a big dose of...

Vegard Gjerde

Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

RE-LEARNING THE LAND is the story of a Blackfoot community in southern Alberta, Canada, and how they have re-taken control of their education system within Red Crow Community College. The film traces the decolonization of their learning and the development of an innovative...

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5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do

In his humorous and uplifting style, Gever Tulley debunks classic myths of childhood safety. With rampant fear mongering, is it any wonder that children are actually over-protected? Instead, Tulley believes the most effective way to keep children safe is to give them a little...

6 min

Happiness and Children

Depression and anxiety are rising rapidly among young people: what’s going on?

William Davies

Radical Politics in the Age of American Authoritarianism: Connecting the Dots

If the left is to fight back against authoritarianism, we must bring together diverse movements working for social change.

Henry A. Giroux

Plant The Seed (2016)

Watch the 6th graders at Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in Queens, NY transform an unused piece of their campus into a beautiful permaculture garden.

12 min

Untying the Blindfold: Beyond Brussels, the Truth for Our Children

The First World is quickly learning that it was easy to skip the lecture on morals and ethics - it is physics that will eloquently phrase the challenge in the end. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Saraswati Nagpal

The Real Irish-American Story Not Taught in Schools

“Wear green on St. Patrick’s Day or get pinched.” That pretty much sums up the Irish-American “curriculum” that I learned when I was in school. Yes, I recall a nod to the so-called Potato Famine, but it was mentioned only in passing.

Bill Bigelow

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

The world today is in crisis. Everybody knows that. But what is driving this crisis? It's a story, a story that is destroying the world. It's a story about our relationship to the world and to other humans, but we take this story for granted. We don't even see it as a story...

Tim Hjersted

Work Through Creative Blocks With Beginner's Mind

“I don’t know anything.”

Jory Mackay

This Revolution Will Not Be Schooled

How We Are Collectively Improvising a 'New Story' About Learning

Bayo Akomolafe and Manish Jain

Demeaned, suspended, expelled ...TEACHED (trailer)

Demeaned, suspended, expelled ...TEACHED. This unique series of short films candidly examines issues of race, education and equality. Produced by Loudspeaker Films, TEACHED will open your eyes to the ways America perpetuates injustice against youth of color through public...

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Kind is the New Cool

When I was in high school, I remember social banter consisting of a lot of subtle put-downs and one-upsmanship. The popular kids were generally not very nice, certainly not to us unpopular kids but not even to each other. I remember a few popular kids being nice to me on the...

Charles Eisenstein

3 Destructive Things You Learned in School Without Realizing It

It was high school. I was 16, and I was pissed off. My English teacher gave us a creative writing assignment: write anything about being in high school. Anything.

Mark Manson

The Five Most Common Misunderstandings About Evolution

Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In a recent episode of the Australian series of “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here”, former cricket star Shane Warne questioned the theory –...

Paula Kover

The Incredible Period of History After The Civil War That America Forgot

Americans should know about this period of history. Because the history of racism is also the history of power, and who holds it. And this story continues to this very day.

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Why I Teach White History Month in February

I have abandoned Black History Month and have been celebrating White History Month every February since 2013.

Diallo Kenyatta

How to Counter Recruitment and De-Militarize Schools

U.S. military recruiters are teaching in public school classrooms, making presentations at school career days, coordinating with JROTC units in high schools and middle schools, volunteering as sports coaches and tutors and lunch buddies in high, middle, and elementary...

David Swanson

Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It

A long, long time ago, an idea was born.

Tim Hjersted

If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It

On Men's Pain, Healing and Transformation

William Timothy Walker

Lifting Communities Out From Underdevelopment - India's Barefoot College

Watch how harnessing human potential along with the sun is improving millions of impoverished lives.

11 min

Something Extraordinary Is Happening in the World, And Most People Haven't Noticed

Most of us haven't quite realized there is something extraordinary happening.

Gustavo Tanaka

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

This is a documentary about getting out into the natural world and learning from the wisdom of land and people - focusing on how rewilding our perception might be the catalyst for the changes we wish to see in the world.

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The Year We Thought About Love (2015) (trailer)

Enjoy our trailer for "The Year We Thought About Love" award-winning feature length documentary about a LGBTQ youth theater troupe.

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Kumu Hina (2014)

Imagine a world where a little boy can grow up to be the woman of his dreams, and a young girl can rise to become a leader of men. Welcome to Kumu Hina's Hawaii. Trailer for award-winning PBS/Independent lens film about a mahu (transgender) teacher in Hawaii and her...

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How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt

“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half” —Jay Gould Metanoia Films has released a new documentary, Plutocracy: Divide et Impera (Divide and Rule). It’s the first entry of a multi-part series directed by filmmaker Scott Noble. The movie assembles a...

Bill Blunden

Tale of Two Campuses: White and Black Mizzou

With all of the unrest that has been occurring at my alma mater, The University of Missouri-Columbia, it has caused me to reflect on my own experiences while on campus. I completed both my undergraduate as well as my master's degree at Mizzou and while I had the opportunity...

Erica Wright

Are You Raising A Boy Or A Toxic Man?

We need to start talking to our sons, and tell them that it’s OK to feel and express emotion. That it doesn’t make them any less of a man.

Avital Norman Nathman

'This Girl Don't Got Nobody': On the Violence in a South Carolina Classroom

Though a police officer exacted the physical violence caught on camera, a teacher, school administrator, and judge participated in it, too. Each of them prioritized power plays, intimidation, and coercion over teaching and learning in a safe environment.

Khadijah Costley White

Professors in Poverty

Meet Dr. Wanda Evans-Brewer. She has been teaching for 20 years, has a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a PhD in Education. She is also living in poverty. Today Professors in Poverty premieres at a Congressional briefing calling on politicians, colleges and...

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When Prince Ea Flips This Track Into Reverse, It All Makes Sense

I Bet Your Favorite Rapper Can't Do This.

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College Athletics Are Stealing Your Future

We are in a college debt crisis. Almost 70 percent of college students graduate with approximately $30,000 in college debt. In 1992, it was one-third of that average. Why has the cost and burden

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Missing From Presidents' Day: the People They Enslaved

Schools across the country are adorned with posters of the 44 U.S. presidents and the years they serv

Clarence Lusane

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