I felt compelled to post this in the hopes that you might take it and show it to your principals, your superintendents, your school board members and your state school board members. What follows is…
Browsing Category Education
Scrape ’em off, Save yourself: Climate Catastrophe and Education
I saw this comment today on the FB regarding an Education article: “I think public education must be like climate change. It is much easier to oppose than to support.” Hmmm…one is huge and absolutely…
Lemons for Lessons: Replacing Childhood with Business Ideology
Apparently it’s time to ramp up the promotion of the propaganda engine that is “Lemonade Day” in America. Today’s Bloomington Herald-Times offers free advertisement for this event and the Powers behind it in the form…
Neo-Determinism, or Pre-Crime Pre-Made is Predictable
Earlier this morning I was trying to begin to really grapple with the determinism of guys like Pinker and Dennett (these are liberal determinists–meaning they have good intentions, really, they promise with a spoon full…
The Locus of Measurable Social Replication: Opt OUT and Make It New
Public schools are, like America, relatively new in history. Especially schools as conceived as a public “good” available to all children. But one can readily argue that men in power never conceived of schools as…
Palm Beach County School Board Considering Shady Charter School Applications
What do Florida and Indiana have in common? They are both laboratories for the New America. Which explorer in history did the most damage to an indigenous population? Pick any one, right? When the pirates…
People ARE Markets for Improvement: Simple, Banal, Evil
It is clear by now (by now, by now, right?) as Goldman Sachs continues to rake in cash and continues to occupy top government roles determining policy, as Oil companies continue to destroy land and…
Community Against the Idiots
(The proposed letter at the end of this is substantially what was posted yesterday though I have revised with the intention of making it more communicative across groups in the hopes that it might be…
IDOE–Shrinking State Power to Expose Your Tender Underbelly (UPDATE)
UPDATE in the body of the text Indiana is at the forefront of a concerted and aggressive drive to weaken state power. That sounds good to so many of us, especially those who believe there…
Education and Capital Replication: It’s the Rot that Becomes Us
If you read this pamphleteer, you discover that education is under ideological assault. Not because there are conflicting ideas about what to learn, how to learn, why to learn, etc. (though there are), but because…