This morning I stumbled upon (in the un-trademarked sense of the phrase) this article on Search Engine Watch, German State Bans Facebook Pages, Like Buttons. The German Independent Center for Privacy Protection has required local (German)…
Date Archives August 2011
A Talent for Business, From Parables to Lemonade Stands
I was saying to our illustrious Web Content Editor the other day, “It’s sad that it took me until age 40 to give a shit about the way human life is organized and managed in…
Sunday Round-up: “NO!” to National Bloviators; Local Call to Stasi Collaborators
A few news items and editorial pieces in the HT drew the urge to comment and so instead of trying to sound the depths of one story or one topic culled from our local paper…
Hoarding Cash While Sustaining Joblessness: Corporate Designs on Cheap Labor
Today’s HT (and yesterday’s, and the day before that…) set me off. Look: Unemployment rate up in Monroe County, state Fact check: Recession is culprit in high US debt Recession taking toll on US children…
School Reform is Redistribution, Isn’t it?
From the Huffington Post today, in an article titled “Superintendents Sound Off On School Reform at Harvard Conference“: In the eyes of Indiana State Superintendent Tony Bennett, America’s schools can only improve by taking on…
GOP Agenda Myths: Torts, and Schools, and Elections, Oh My!
In section E of today’s HT, the “Speed Read” section, which offers “capsules” of news-wire stories, printed this headline, “Most malpractice cases don’t pay.” You can’t read the whole AP piece in the paper or the…
Evaluating Valuation: Millions for Business and Games, Hundreds for Kids
I will give props where due even if what I’m giving props about is unintentional. In today’s HT on page A3 there are two stories headlined and their juxtaposition will tell you all you need…
The Criminal State: A State of Criminality
Some Random thoughts today before I dive back into a longer piece about our constant and repetitive education “problems”. 1) Where does your “pet” organization stand on the Rights of Workers to organize and bargain…
Jeb Bush’s Privatization Plan for Indiana Public Schools
This is a guest post by B-town Errant contributor, Doug Martin. This post was originally published on Mr. Martin’s blog on Fire Dog Lake, and has been republished on B-Town Errant with his permission. A few weeks…
School Discipline: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Citizen?
(Update Below) Yesterday’s HT front page offered this reader instruction on the “hidden” ties among our cultural “institutions: schools (their management and measurement); police (authoritarian management of a population); and consumerism (school supplies). The first…