[Cross-posted at Schools Matter.] This begins a series of readings concerned with the articles and images found in the October Atlantic Monthly which promote the “Reform Agenda” of both conservatives and liberals (as power has no pure politics). I will primarily be concerned with the conveyance of ideology. However, I have asked my Errant collaborator Doug Martin to offer investigative analysis of the interconnectedness among the authors…
Discipline and Punish
Maybe you’re not 44 and so are not conversant with the movie Reality Bites (its genesis and presentation 20 years past), but I am. The down-and-out 20-something “losers” (heed my punctuation, please) in that film did not exemplify me. I had a job as an English teacher in a parochial high school in St. Louis, MO and was raking in a massive 18k. The mise-en-scene…
Newspapers are Rags and Criminals are Dignitaries
To the Editors of the Bloomington, Indiana Herald-Times (a Schurz Communications Product), I think we must conclude that the HT is not a newspaper dedicated to anything like journalism. Perhaps it is at best a community gossip sheet. Please supply your own comparisons. It has been conveyed to me on more than one occasion that the HT only focuses on “local” issues of education, local…
Instructed to Ignorance
I started out thinking I could assert that the school curriculum (the “what” of instruction) is irrelevant but that is of course not what I would mean to say. Rather, curriculum is ALL possible responses to all possible utterances.* That means the space of instruction (fancy critical theory calls this the “scene”)–home, church, playground, friend’s home, school bus, school, classroom, hallways, iPad, laptop, Xbox, etc.–and…
What is a Metaphysic?
Evolution may be considered as a fairly straightforward metaphysical theory with a long history which was not so much confirmed by the theory of natural selection as embarrassed by it. The difference between the two is indicated by the fact that Darwin himself did not use the word until the fifth edition of the Origin (1869)…It is a metaphysical term, because it purports to make…
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The Value of Employment in Education
Here are some things I noticed today looking at the HR postings for a local school corp. High School Guard (one really ought to train in law enforcement): $14.70 per hour, 8 hours. Preventionist: GED. Aids in literacy education: $8.70 per hour, 6.5 hours Locker Room Aide: No clue what this is: $8.70 per hour, 7 hours Bus Driver: $11.67 per hour, 5 hours Substitute…
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Raising Workers for Poverty’s Sake!
Why do “philanthropists” want to “deliver on the American promise of equal opportunity by working to attack the achievement gap that takes root early in life and puts children in poverty at great disadvantage?” (Educare website) Every word a philanthropist organization utters must be understood as a kind of duplicity. Listen. That (reducing “achievement gaps”) goal is now embraced by other major philanthropists – the…
Tit-Bits
At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the schooner. Hoisting sail, it glided down the Acushnet river. On one side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice- covered trees all glittering in the clear, cold air. Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and…