Greenwald’s new book (With Liberty and Justice for Some) arrived yesterday. As is my, er, usual practice, I repaired to the water closet for a prefatory inspection. I will offer the full amount of the…
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The Barbaric Heart of the Market and Its Acolytes
If you’re an Errant reader (thanks!) then you’re aware of my visceral negative reaction to the blog by Walmart scholar Jay Greene called, imaginatively, “Jay P. Greene’s Blog” (do you think he meant the “P”…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
This Poem Shall Confront Them…Where the #@^! Is the Lighthouse?
And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this poem shall confront them as a witness, for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their descendants. (Deuteronomy 31:21) After five days on…
Eli Lilly’s Pushers for Corporate School Reform
The Lilly Endowment is the venture philanthropy outfit which owns stock in the mega pharmaceutical drug company, Eli Lilly. As a major participant in advancing the corporatization of Indiana education, the Lilly Endowment prominently finances local…