What follows are two pieces by Eric Sargent, an educator in the St. Louis area, and good friend to the Errant. Eric has written the below in response to the state of education but also…
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Corporate Foxes in the IN DOE Henhouse: The Chain School Gospel of Jeb Bush, Jon Hage and WalMart
When the Indiana Charter School Board recently approved two new Charter Schools USA schools to open in Indianapolis, the corporate school honeymoon was on. The East Indianapolis Charter Academy and the South Indianapolis Charter Academy,…
Noble Charter School Network’s Taking It To The Bank
When word recently broke that Chicago’s Noble Network of Charter Schools was raking in $386,745 over the last three years by charging students fees for everything from chewing gum to not looking teachers in the…
Tenure Perches in the Soul
I. “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune–without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the…
Girls Do Science!
Or, Learning Meaningless Utilities Today, via the local newspaper (Bloomington’s The Herald-Times), comes an illustration of the modern mind “on science.” My friend Monkeywrench is in my ear…slow down, find some common ground. It’s not…
The Mind Trust’s “Opportunity” for Indianapolis Corporate Schools
As Bart Peterson and David Harris’ Mind Trust sells its “Opportunity School” agenda (PDF) to the City-County Council Community Affairs Committee this week, it is time to get one thing straight. The Mind Trust plan…
The Mind of the Archgod of the Earth
Yesterday, late, I posted the following as, “If Not Equality, then Broad’s Advantage,” and I wanted to start with it here because I just read it’s philosophical underpinnings in Lawrence (again, Women in Love). So,…
Hate and Death and Education: Or, D. H. Lawrence in Love
Some time ago I posted that men, on the whole, hate women. I meant that. I meant it in this way, from D. H. Lawrence who was a good hater, in Women in Love. But…
So Many Lies From Which to Choose: Privatization and Innovation
I guess you know that the largest private employer in the world is WalMart. Do you know what number two is? I didn’t either. But as I was looking into the private prison issue I…
Experts Serving Interests: Academic Collusion in the Corporate State
Readers of Errant musings know that my primary focus seems to always have a common theme: the loss of local human good to the abstractions of wealth and power. We are seeing a very rapid…