This from a piece in the the Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY and Southern Indiana) titled “Bill would give Indiana parents ability to convert schools to charters,” about the so-called “Parent Trigger.” As a nod to my…
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Against Oligarchical Roundtables In Education (and really, everywhere else too)
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow It’s that simple really. All we do now is ask the wrong questions and…
The Principal is not your Pal: Backstabbing as Pedagogy
From the Bloomington Herald-Times this morning (1/9/2012) comes this betrayal of learning and education. I had intended to simply excerpt but it is too valuable as an example of the way the Project Loving Capital…
The Loss of Soul: Corrupting Language and Stealing Common Understanding
Today our newspaper editorialized that the “fight’ over “right-to-work” legislation “should just go away” (seriously, that’s the headline). Here’s their primary argument: The so-called “right-to-work” issue has already disrupted the Indiana General Assembly. The Republicans’…
Imperial Philanthropy: Using Education Reform to Buy the Earth and Sky
Editor’s note: Doug Martin’s work supplies a kind of corrective to the simple “top-line” story and understanding of the education reform movement. It can be understood to be “about” management and assessment to enforce a…
Freedom really is just another word for nothing left to lose.
Welcome to Freedom-land. Seriously, think about it. The world’s greatest power has increased its own poverty levels to where full 1/3 of the population lives in this state. Many of us commoners believe the state…
Charity at the Speed of Thoughtless Imagery
Yesterday I confronted a local newspaper column offered as a “correction” to remarks I made regarding charity and humanitarian aid seen through the marketing of narrow Hollywood frames offered by groups like Invisible Children. I…
“Can ponwyi”–The Grace of Gods by Force
In Acholi, a language of the Acholi people of Northern Uganda, “can ponwyi” literally translates as “disaster and poverty teach you.” (Allen, “Postscript: a kind of peace and an exported war,” 283)* This might put…
Boycotting the Indiana Press’s Corporate School Reform Agenda
Through biased reporting and their unrelenting pursuit to promote Bennett, Daniels, and the corporate school reformers, the Indiana media flunkies have been selling the privatization of our schools for too long. The time is now…
Bear Grylls, a 5th Grader, and Friday? What is Robinson Crusue
I sent the following to my local paper today–bear in mind there is a 200-word-limit. To the Editor: We like to believe that people who want to be elected for particular offices of government have…