More has been said about what’s wrong with recent Supreme Court decisions than about what the decisions said. Snap analyses have amounted to spreading half-true and often biased explanations to people who don’t read the opinions. On one side are liberals, including justices, who give the clear impression that the Court is political, acting like […]

In the early days of The Gathering Place, 12 years ago, the few volunteers there struggled. How could we help those who had come looking for rest and searching for a place where somebody welcomed them and was not turned away, not scorned and not driven away? Should we give them advice, offer them the […]

In a 6-3 ruling on Thursday, June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of race in college admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, outlawing the use of race in college admissions in general. The Conversation reached out to three legal scholars to explain what the decision means for students, colleges and universities, […]

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the most trusted barometer of children’s classroom progress, has just delivered bad but expected news. Post COVID-19 lockdown testing found that kids are going backwards in both reading and math. Thirteen-year-olds who took the NAEP test during the 2022-2023 school year performed at lower levels in math and […]