Yesterday I attached a brief note to the post on the Parent Trigger (turning public schools into charter schools via parent vote) about proposed legislation in Indiana to limit and penalize “embellishment” when singing the…
Date Archives January 2012
Indiana’s David Wolkins: One of ALEC’s 2011 Legislators of the Year
Below is by no means a comprehensive accounting of the flippant Duke Energy puppet, David Wolkins, but it should serve to illustrate why the system will never be fixed but likely must be burned to…
Twist the Barrel: Opposing ALEC’s Parent Trigger in Indiana
Disarmament sculpture at the UN* (Please use the following as a template to email to your Indiana congresspeople now.) Yesterday, the Parent Trigger bill passed an Indiana House committee. Although Rep. Rhonda Rhoads’ House Bill…
The Parent Trigger Trap
This from a piece in the the Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY and Southern Indiana) titled “Bill would give Indiana parents ability to convert schools to charters,” about the so-called “Parent Trigger.” As a nod to my…
Errant Essays Re-Posted at Schools Matter
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Against Oligarchical Roundtables In Education (and really, everywhere else too)
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow It’s that simple really. All we do now is ask the wrong questions and…
The Principal is not your Pal: Backstabbing as Pedagogy
From the Bloomington Herald-Times this morning (1/9/2012) comes this betrayal of learning and education. I had intended to simply excerpt but it is too valuable as an example of the way the Project Loving Capital…
The Loss of Soul: Corrupting Language and Stealing Common Understanding
Today our newspaper editorialized that the “fight’ over “right-to-work” legislation “should just go away” (seriously, that’s the headline). Here’s their primary argument: The so-called “right-to-work” issue has already disrupted the Indiana General Assembly. The Republicans’…
Imperial Philanthropy: Using Education Reform to Buy the Earth and Sky
Editor’s note: Doug Martin’s work supplies a kind of corrective to the simple “top-line” story and understanding of the education reform movement. It can be understood to be “about” management and assessment to enforce a…
Freedom really is just another word for nothing left to lose.
Welcome to Freedom-land. Seriously, think about it. The world’s greatest power has increased its own poverty levels to where full 1/3 of the population lives in this state. Many of us commoners believe the state…