Surely, if you’re anything like me (don’t admit it if you are!), you must be confronting the idea and fact of school voucher programs from rhetorical and ideological perspectives on offer in the news media…
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School Reform is Redistribution, Isn’t it?
From the Huffington Post today, in an article titled “Superintendents Sound Off On School Reform at Harvard Conference“: In the eyes of Indiana State Superintendent Tony Bennett, America’s schools can only improve by taking on…
Jeb Bush’s Privatization Plan for Indiana Public Schools
This is a guest post by B-town Errant contributor, Doug Martin. This post was originally published on Mr. Martin’s blog on Fire Dog Lake, and has been republished on B-Town Errant with his permission. A few weeks…
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…
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…
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…
What’s In a Name? School District as Corporation
“It rocks the core of education and what we’ve been accustomed to. From the changes in collective bargaining to teacher/principal evaluations, merit pay and changes in the immigration laws, it’s just been one thing after…