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”) [...]
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Paving the Way
The idea that “saving” or protecting aspects of the world actually implies destruction of the remainder–a lack of needing to care about the world in its wholeness. For example let’s take National Parks. Implicit in a law protecting the environment from our destructive resource depletion and waste is the approval for the industrial rapine that [...]
What Is American Education?
Today, though it is certainly by now an “old” debate, our Sunday paper has an “opinion” piece about Common Core State Standards. The Errant has posted before on this (here, and here–the collusion of “divergent” interests) but I want to try to elaborate a bit on what I think are the things that are not [...]
On Hitchens-ism: When Good is Bad; The Humanitarian Screen for War.
I cannot improve on Greenwald’s discussion of the way the death of Christopher Hitchens has exposed a cadre of influential writers who provided “material support” for the invasion, destruction and occupation of Iraq as not only a calculable good for humanity but also for US civic engagement. Apparently nationalism and patriotism are inherently good. I’m [...]
