Well, I spent the last 5 years completing my doctorate and seem to have not had the bandwidth to blog. Sorry for the dead air, but I was writing. Quite a lot, in fact. I won’t bore you with the shear amount, but will mention that the last thing I wrote was 121 pages long (even with my data in the cloud!). I have taken a few weeks off, but the urge to write again is creeping in, so I plan to start making this a regular thing from now on. The crazy part about writing a dissertation is the frustration of not being able to explore all of the areas the materials want to take you to. I suppressed so many tangents I am convinced I could write a series of 20 books and not be done exploring all of the connections between money and power and education and democracy. My goal here will be to begin the process of identifying what can be done to get education on track to promote justice and democracy, which will often involve identifying the ways that it suppresses justice and democracy, and, hopefully, be a voice of reason in the politically charged world of education we currently find ourselves in. Unfortunately, as my dissertation research proved, it has been a battle since the 1800s and not much has changed about the fight over the goals and aims of public education. As people say, it’s not broken, it’s working exactly like it is supposed to. More on that later. For now, I just want to say hi, I’m back, and I can’t wait to get into the nitty gritty of educational philosophy and practice with y’all.

Dr. Kimberlie Kowalka Todd