This is a “local” post, but don’t dismiss it–think how it might apply to the schools in your community. What follows is, in full, an article from today’s Herald Times intended to “color in” some…
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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…
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…