First, Jay Greene makes 150k per annum from WalMart graft through his assignment as the Chief for Change in the Educational Propaganda Department at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; likely he gets “scholarships” and…
Date Archives January 2012
The Harthouse Exemplar: Jonah Edelman of Stand for Children
As I’ve been immersed in Hard Times this reminded me of this bit regarding the character James Harthouse, Esq., from Book II, chapter 2 ‘You are going to devote yourself, as I gather from what…
Parent Revolution: Not Your Parents, Not a Revolution
INDIANA CORPORATE SCHOOL UPDATES FOR JANUARY 22, 2012 Once again, ISTA’s Nate Schnellenberger wishy-washes around fighting off the Indiana corporate school reformers, this time in response to the fake parent trigger bill. Nate says “We think…
Sunday Sermon: Spirituality Replaces the Unknown, like always
Today, as it is Sunday, the newspaper offers content to match the world of religious observance. In “Losing their religion: Young people rejecting organized worship at an unprecedented rate” (pay-wall) we discover several things about…
The Keynote: Everything Was Fact
From Chapter V of Dickens’ Hard Times. THE KEYNOTE. COKETOWN, to which Messrs. Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind…
Martin’s Monsters–Highlighting the Latest from the Education Apocalypse
Doug Martin, always on the look-out for “news” from Liar’s Club, Education Division, sent us a few links to explore. What becomes clear, or is always clear, is that these folks are rank propagandists–simply look…
Speaking of Books: Murdering the Innocents
And speaking of reading: some books have chapters or sections that can be considered apart from the whole work as something like illustrative set pieces. These pieces are part of the whole, but can be…
120 Years Too Late
William Morris in an 1896 address to the Society for Checking the Abuses of Public Advertising: Next, we have to remember that the enormous majority of the people of the country do not care one…
Becoming is Revolutionary
This is too good for me not to lift right off of one blog and plunk it down here (“Steal this Blog Post!”)–this is from Paul Thomas cross-posting at DailyKos and Schools Matter, “Universal Public…