Mike Klonsky's Blog

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on the military killings in Myanmar I am deeply shocked by the killing of dozens of civilians, in...

First and foremost, neither Dr Seuss nor Mr Potato Head are being cancelled.   Akin Olla on Dr. Seuss Real cancel culture has existed in the...

Tomorrow is the first big test for my new knee following a small rehab setback. I'm scheduled to speak on a panel on  The Life and Leg...

A SMALLTALK SALUTE goes out to teacher/author/activist Jose Vilson , whose book, This Is Not a Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and E...

Sam Spitz met Teddy Williams at a barber shop, and they documented their story in a film, "The Greens." I couldn't be prou...

I get lots of great books in the mail. I wish I had time to read and review them all. Today I got one of the best. It's called Separat...

I'm catching up on my reading. Here's what I'm plowing through: Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago's 9...

I'm trying to catch up this summer on reading that's piling up in the Kindle. Aside from beach novels -- I've reloaded The Nin...

CEO Byrd-Bennett has denounced the children's book Hansel and Gretel, as "too grim to be read by first graders." She has rep...

7 editions of Persepolis in Lab School library Funny. It seems the Klonsky brothers are the best news source in town on this one.  Clair...

Arundhati Roy reads from The God of Small Things (M. Klonsky pic) Listening to author/activist ( The God of Small Things)   Arundhati R...

Hundreds of Lane Tech College Prep students attempted to hold a sit-in this morning inside the school library, in response to CPS' b...

Satrapi Persepolis author, Marjane Satrapi  “For me, the worst in all of that is it’s absolutely the biggest insult to the intelligenc...

Today at Lane Tech In this morning's post, I greatly underestimated the arrogance and stupidity of the CPS autocrats. That's a s...

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Against the Odds Small schools educators, activists and researchers will want to read Against the Odds: Insights from One District's Sma...

The real version of Anne Frank's diary Culpeper County public school officials have decided to stop assigning a version of Anne Frank...

Betti Cadmus and her book-banning board members in Menifee Union School Dist. undercut my campaign by putting Webster's Dictionary bac...

It's not easy being a book burner. For one thing, as a Menifee, Calif. school board member, Betti Cadmus , discovered when she tried to ...