Johann Neem
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| Johann Neem: Restoring the Promise of Public Education | The last four years have taught us just how fractured America is. After a decisive but divisive election, President-elect Joseph Biden now begins the most difficult work ever: trying to weave back together a social fabric that has, after years of neglect, come unraveled. Biden has promised… |
2020-11-20 | |
| WWU's Johann Neem to moderate 'Democracy’s Ghosts: Fear and Hope in the 2020 Election' Oct. 27 | 2020-10-19 | ||
| Johann Neem Joining the JER Editorial Team | Johann Neem will be joining the JER editorial team as co-editor with me beginning on January 1, 2021. Johann is well known to many of us as a devoted and conscientious SHEAR citizen and member of the JER editorial board. He is both a prolific… |
2020-09-30 | |
| ‘Please Don’t Convert to Whiteness’ | Johann N. Neem was born in India. Before he turned 3, his parents immigrated from Mumbai to San Francisco, part of the first wave of newcomers admitted to the United States after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. He didn’t feel any conflict between his immigrant identity and his… |
2020-08-25 | |
| SC private schools seeing increased interest from parents unhappy with reopening plans | Western Washington University history professor Johann Neem, an expert on America’s public schools, said he worries the collision of longstanding GOP goals on private school choice with parents’ immediate needs in a crisis could erode support for public education. Across the nation,… |
2020-08-10 | |
| Does the Covid pandemic spell the end of public schools? | We might be entering the last days of public education in America. The United States, which led the world in expanding access to public education to boys and girls in the 1800s, is poised to become the first rich nation to abandon that commitment as longstanding political efforts to undermine… |
2020-07-31 | |
| Will We Still be American after Democracy Dies? | There is a real possibility that American democracy will die come November. I hope not. I pray not. But I worry. Many scenarios that would have once appeared fantastic, now seem to be within the realm of the possible. One does not need a vivid imagination to wonder what would happen if the… |
2020-07-08 | |
| Do as I Do, Not as I Say? The Wall Street Hypocrisy on Online Education | In a recent New York Times column, NYU business school professor Hans Taparia proclaimed (as many have before) that “the future of college is online.” Whenever I hear these words, I… |
2020-05-28 | |
| What Could a New Admissions Test Bring? | Last week's vote by the University of California Board of Regents was largely viewed as a defeat for supporters of the SAT and ACT. But it was also something else. Regents voted to establish a new admissions test within five years. If they don't, UC will cease to use standardized tests… |
2020-05-27 | |
| US Lockdown Protests Fueled by Distrust of Government, Experts | “For decades, the right has been fueling a hostility to government that has bread real and deep distrust among Americans on the right to what government, not just what government does, but who the people in government are,” said Johann Neem, an author and a history professor at Western… |
2020-05-18 |