Some Random thoughts today before I dive back into a longer piece about our constant and repetitive education “problems”. 1) Where does your “pet” organization stand on the Rights of Workers to organize and bargain…
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School Discipline: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Citizen?
(Update Below) Yesterday’s HT front page offered this reader instruction on the “hidden” ties among our cultural “institutions: schools (their management and measurement); police (authoritarian management of a population); and consumerism (school supplies). The first…
Vouchers as Feint–Subsidizing Free Market Ideology
Today’s HT front-page story by Bethany Nolan detailing an informational meeting about the state’s expansive voucher program is titled “School Vouchers Praised for Adding Options,” while the online edition changes its title somewhat to “School…
Facebook Ban Doomed a la Footloose! But That’s Not the Real Lesson…
The Amy Hestir Student Protection Act in Missouri is set to go into effect on August 28th. The law’s primary purpose is to protect children against sexual predators. Here is the section that has come…
Turnaround in Schools is Aggressive Coercive Takeover
(Update below) An Errant favorite Indiana Ed blog, School Matters, is sounding alarms over the State Department of Education’s plans to take-over and sell “turnaround” services to “reform” companies. One company in particular, EdisonLearning. Indiana Superintendent…
We Trust in Tech Companies? (Pew Poll)
This is from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and serves to add more detail to the recent Errant post In None Do We Trust. It’s an article regarding poll information…
Rise of the Divine Ape
I am in no position to critique the Rise of the Planet of the Apes as one in a a franchise of films (and TV series). I have seen the Planet of the Apes, but…
Politicians, Corporations, Unions…In None Do We Trust
First, who’s this “we”? I don’t know…”Americans”? Is there such a thing? So, on the heels of recent cursory research into the salaries of our local major liberal arts university as well as a report…
An Illegitimate Public Discourse – Or, Liars Everywhere
Bear with me on this…it’s a simple point and one I’ll keep making as The Errant keeps “heralding the unwritten”: Where will we find truth regarding our world–the world that is factual and verifiable? Politics…
Privitization of Schools: What Faith Are You Funding?
“…I think privatization and choice programs will grow massively at the state level. We’ll have poor schools with declining budgets for the poor inner-city kids and rural kids, largely made up of kids of color…