In our laundry room by the door to the garage, we have a wall calendar that lists important historical events for each date. The kids look at it every day–we talk about the events on…
Date Archives September 2011
Student Disengagement: The Fallacy of Technology in the Classroom
The Errant offers an insider’s view at what is often a real barrier to an engagement with learning in our classrooms: technology. A brief Errant perspective: pencil, paper, text, teacher. Done. Our contributor Eric Sargent…
Rally for Action Not Abstraction
Lenin famously asked, “What can be done?” Without following the path of Lenin (!) we must recognize our moments and take our chances as people to speak out, act out, against the tyrannies of entrenched…
Being Honest About Knowing Nothing: Who to Read
Hey, a quick note to ask you (while always paying proper attention to your favorite idlers here at the Errant) to bookmark and check in frequently with a few of my favorite writers and thinkers…
More than Markets: “We are Workingmen!”
(Update in the text: Big Food in Schools) I will always admit to an inability to connect point A to point X, Y or Z through the clear delineation of points B through W. I…
True Public Education: Marketing at Abercrombie & Fitch
This past Saturday my children and I participated in the end-of-summer ritual of back-to-school shopping. My daughter is 9 and my son is 7. Shopping, other than at the Lego store, is not a favorite…
A Labor Day Note on School Vouchers, Psychopaths, Chile, and the United States
As the paid propagandists bamboozled the public in the Bill Gates-controlled “education media” on the eve of the Save Our Schools March, Robert Enlow appeared in Education Week, declaring Milton Friedman the savior of both…
No Charter School Left Behind: Mitch Daniels, Tony Bennett, and Dennis Bakke’s Imagine 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. Introductory comments from…
The Actions of the Criminal Classes: The Mask of Freedom
“The plague has freed them from the blind impulse to fall under the influence of contemporary laws. The knights, the merchants, the warriors and women, who demand–they each demand a new life.”–Viktor Shklovsky How about…
Organs of Force: Free Market Grifters and Edupreneurs
*Please see footnote at the bottom of this post for a comment about my title choice. Fellow blogger and “education-minded” investigator Steve Hinnefeld suggested I check out the work of Karen Francisco who helms Learning…