Gilbert T. Sewall

Gilbert T. Sewall is currently a reviewer for Publishers Weekly. Since 1989, he has been director of the American Textbook Council in New York City. Sewall is a former history ...

Gilbert T. Sewall is currently a reviewer for Publishers Weekly. Since 1989, he has been director of the American Textbook Council in New York City. Sewall is a former history instructor at Phillips Academy, Andover, and education editor at Newsweek magazine. He has been on the adjunct faculties of New York University and Boston University, and a research associate at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has been a Kenan Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and a Fellow of the National Humanities Center. Sewall is the author of Necessary Lessons: Decline and Renewal in American Schools and the co-author of After Hiroshima: The U.S.A. since 1945. Sewall is editor of The Eighties: A Reader. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, American Educator, American Spectator, and many other publications.

Mau-Mauing at UCSD

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The University of California at San Diego race protests continue. Weeks of shameless histrionics to extract university resources along racial lines have not ended, and tensions seem to be escalating. The ...
Politics & Policy

Fuzzy Reading

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Last year, New York City parents objected to reading books put in their local school’s sixth-grade classroom library. They complained about Am I Blue?, a collection of stories about gay ...
Politics & Policy

Civics V. Citizenship

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For some time in U.S. schools, traditional civics education has been on the defensive. Many social-studies educators think the study of basic governmental principles is “dry.” They shrink from civics ...
Politics & Policy

Newdow & Us

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for ...