Public schools are, like America, relatively new in history. Especially schools as conceived as a public “good” available to all children. But one can readily argue that men in power never conceived of schools as…
Date Archives January 2012
Palm Beach County School Board Considering Shady Charter School Applications
What do Florida and Indiana have in common? They are both laboratories for the New America. Which explorer in history did the most damage to an indigenous population? Pick any one, right? When the pirates…
People ARE Markets for Improvement: Simple, Banal, Evil
It is clear by now (by now, by now, right?) as Goldman Sachs continues to rake in cash and continues to occupy top government roles determining policy, as Oil companies continue to destroy land and…
Community Against the Idiots
(The proposed letter at the end of this is substantially what was posted yesterday though I have revised with the intention of making it more communicative across groups in the hopes that it might be…
United in Dissent: A Platform Against Corporate Technocracy
This is a skeleton key. Please use it; if for nothing else but to open up to this author the errors of his thinking. It is a beginning, but in urgency. “Going Local” is an…
Betrayal Merits the Deepest Pit: John Gregg Supported by Corporate Ed Reform Funders
Doug Martin offers an open letter to Indiana gubernatorial candidate John Gregg. Calling himself a democrat–what we might now call the Secular Corporate Party if we’re trying to “define terms” (for you bobby v)–Gregg is…
The Flavors of Our Mindless Totality
Okay, here’s what we now have for political parties. I base this on the two things I’m most aware of: the privatization movement in education (long-standing but now on the brink of take-over) and our…
IDOE–Shrinking State Power to Expose Your Tender Underbelly (UPDATE)
UPDATE in the body of the text Indiana is at the forefront of a concerted and aggressive drive to weaken state power. That sounds good to so many of us, especially those who believe there…
Education and Capital Replication: It’s the Rot that Becomes Us
If you read this pamphleteer, you discover that education is under ideological assault. Not because there are conflicting ideas about what to learn, how to learn, why to learn, etc. (though there are), but because…
Travels with Tony; Race to Coerce; ALEC as Paramilitary State; Land of Goshen Teaching “science”
Here’s a bit of a news round-up from stories picked off the Doug Martin Wire Service. The number one story is kind of a jaw-dropper for me out of Goshen, Indiana. Tim Thiery, the author…