I’m not a fan of economics. I’d rank it well below Freudian psychology as a sociology masquerading as, or yearning to be seen as, a “science”. Of course, I’m no great fan of the myriad splintered activities we call “science” either. But that’s a misanthropy in me I suppose. We are stupid as a species while pretending to be the spit and image (spittin’ image;…
Toady #2: Greg Forster, Friedman Fellow
Because I linked to Walmart scholar JayZee Greene’s blog their blog program picks it up and sticks it into the particular post’s comments thread. Toady #2, as I characterized him in the post, Greg Forster, replied to the Errant’s post: Greg Forster says: October 31, 2011 at 11:38 am Drop whatever you’re doing and click on this link right now. This made my day like…
Implementing Common Core State Standards: An Inside View
The B-town Errant received a communication from the trenches this morning regarding the recent posts about Common Corporate State Standards. Our correspondent generously agreed to allow us to reproduce the email. I have altered some of the personal content in the text to further the anonymity of this respondent. I have not indented it as “quoted material” so that it might be easier to read. …
Concision in Media: Repetition Compulsion
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Walmart Scholars Aghast at Barbaric Liberal Goons Against Common Core
Keeping with our recent focus on the Occupy Movement and in particular that directed at corporate control of the local institutions of public education I thought I’d share my favorite Reform Scholar blog’s response to the “Occupy DOE” video that we blogged about here on Friday, “Occupy the DOE: New York’s Panel on Educational Policy is Occupied”. First though, I’d like to note again that…
Occupy Common Core Standards: Butchering and Packaging Kids for Global Capital
This is actually pretty simple to see and realize: the ruse called education reform is being legitimized from the top down by offering a “veneer” of scholarly research and governmental agreement alongside the “scare tactics” of “keeping up with Korea”, or any other Asian country of your choice. It seems the “Red Scare” of Mao’s Communism has morphed into the “Yellow Scare” of Chinese Education.* …
Explaining the Human: “A Town Called Panic”
I am fairly convinced that this French stop-motion film, “A Town Called Panic”, is the artifact I would choose for a time-capsule or to be sent into deep space in order to explain human beings. I am particularly fond of the characterization of scientists (technologists)–look for the giant mechanized penguin throwing snowballs–that description alone pretty much says it all. The clip offered here for your…
Occupy the DOE: New York’s Panel on Educational Policy is Occupied
**Update Below: Local School Board elections also “Wall Street”. (h/t to B-town resident and friend Angela) A friend tagged me in a Facebook post about an “Occupy” event in New York. It was beautiful. Here’s the description of the event: The Panel for Education Policy (or PEP), enacts policy for the New York City Dept. of Education. The PEP replaced the Board of Education when…
An Errant Request: Reader, What is a School?
I would honestly prefer to read, think and write about poetry, about Bei Dao or Margaret Fuller in The Dial, or “the tyranny of vision” that I fear is our only REAL problem (vision becomes language: narrow what you look at, narrow what you think and say). But I think it might do us all some good to try to understand the aggressive and now…
Weighing Capital Intent in Public Systems
From the Herald Times of Bloomington, IN. Letter: Voucher programs LETTERS October 26, 2011 To the editor: Recently the Chamber of Commerce hosted an education forum that will showcase the aggressive policies of profiteering implemented by the state government and promoted by the Indiana Superintendent for Public Instruction, Tony Bennett. Note that “Instruction” is not “Education” but rather marching orders. Bennett has turned the position…