Because I linked to Walmart scholar JayZee Greene’s blog their blog program picks it up and sticks it into the particular post’s comments thread. Toady #2, as I characterized him in the post, Greg Forster,…
Date Archives October 2011
Implementing Common Core State Standards: An Inside View
The B-town Errant received a communication from the trenches this morning regarding the recent posts about Common Corporate State Standards. Our correspondent generously agreed to allow us to reproduce the email. I have altered some…
Concision in Media: Repetition Compulsion
The pharmacodynamic effects of sildenafil in subjects with ED of broad-spectrum etiology have been evaluated in response to visual sexual stimulation and tactile stimulation, following doses of 10, 25, 50 and 100 mg, using penile…
Walmart Scholars Aghast at Barbaric Liberal Goons Against Common Core
Keeping with our recent focus on the Occupy Movement and in particular that directed at corporate control of the local institutions of public education I thought I’d share my favorite Reform Scholar blog’s response to…
Occupy Common Core Standards: Butchering and Packaging Kids for Global Capital
This is actually pretty simple to see and realize: the ruse called education reform is being legitimized from the top down by offering a “veneer” of scholarly research and governmental agreement alongside the “scare tactics”…
Explaining the Human: “A Town Called Panic”
I am fairly convinced that this French stop-motion film, “A Town Called Panic”, is the artifact I would choose for a time-capsule or to be sent into deep space in order to explain human beings. …
Occupy the DOE: New York’s Panel on Educational Policy is Occupied
**Update Below: Local School Board elections also “Wall Street”. (h/t to B-town resident and friend Angela) A friend tagged me in a Facebook post about an “Occupy” event in New York. It was beautiful. Here’s…
An Errant Request: Reader, What is a School?
I would honestly prefer to read, think and write about poetry, about Bei Dao or Margaret Fuller in The Dial, or “the tyranny of vision” that I fear is our only REAL problem (vision becomes…
Weighing Capital Intent in Public Systems
From the Herald Times of Bloomington, IN. Letter: Voucher programs LETTERS October 26, 2011 To the editor: Recently the Chamber of Commerce hosted an education forum that will showcase the aggressive policies of profiteering implemented…
This Poem Shall Confront Them…Where the #@^! Is the Lighthouse?
And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this poem shall confront them as a witness, for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their descendants. (Deuteronomy 31:21) After five days on…