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Owen Silverman Andrews

The Fight for Full, Fair Funding for Maryland Community Colleges

Higher Ed State Budgets Must be Based on Impact, Need, Potential

3 min readMar 22, 2024

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The Fight for Full, Fair Funding for Maryland Community Colleges

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Owen Silverman Andrews
in
Age of Awareness

Community Colleges’ Decline Exaggerated, not Inevitable

To Increase Enrollment, Respect Students’ Goals, Identities, Languages, and Schedules

7 min readMar 16, 2024

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A community college building with the word “COMMONS” above the front door in a snowy landscape.

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Owen Silverman Andrews

Presence Politics

Abolition is constructive. [A poem]

1 min readMar 7, 2024

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floor

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Owen Silverman Andrews

Stop Doubting, Keep Building

Teachers’ Systems-Critical Optimism for Today’s Students is Our Only Hope

2 min readMar 4, 2024

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Blurry students descending a modernist staircase

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Owen Silverman Andrews
in
Age of Awareness

How Social Movements Can Win the Higher Ed Wars

Coalitions Fighting for the Common Good Are Key

2 min readFeb 27, 2024

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A campus building in the background, autumnal trees in foreground

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Owen Silverman Andrews
in
Age of Awareness

No More Blank Checks for Maryland’s Private Colleges and Universities

The Sellinger Formula Must Be Restructured

2 min readFeb 21, 2024

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Massive brick gate of a private university

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Owen Silverman Andrews
in
Age of Awareness

Is the Carnegie Project on the EdD for the Bosses’ Benefit?

Search for Design Fix to Historical Distinction Between EdD, PhD May Limit Practitioner-Scholars’ Research Horizons

4 min readFeb 3, 2024

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A student raises her hand as her classmate makes a poster presentation in the front of the room.

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Owen Silverman Andrews

On Social Movement Structure

Grassroots Justice Orgs’ Facilitation, Process, and Maintenance

3 min readJan 15, 2024

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Framework: Social Justice/Solidarity Movement Formations, 2024, Owen Silverman Andrews, owen.s.andrews@pm.me

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Owen Silverman Andrews
in
Age of Awareness

Public Education is a Social Good, not Top-Down Commodity

Revisionist History of Leader’s Takedown, Manufactured Crisis, Flop in Face of Data

6 min readJan 5, 2024

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A chart of 8th grade reading test scores with Maryland near the top.

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Owen Silverman Andrews

What I Wrote About, On and Off Medium, in 2023

A Year of Prodigious Writing with Fabulous Co-Authors

8 min readDec 30, 2023

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What I Wrote About, On and Off Medium, in 2023

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Owen Silverman Andrews

Owen Silverman Andrews

I write on solidarity organizing, electoral politics, language learning, multilingual ed, community college, food, + poems and stories.

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