Tag Archives: mike pence

Islam and the Free Market of Privatized Education: “Friending” the Gülen Charter Schools

[Sit back and feast on this cornucopia of "insider-trading" in Indiana Education.  Is it just me or is there just an odd linguistic "reality" called forth in this partnership?  "Indian(a)" and "Turkey" equals an (immigrant) Pilgrim conquest of the "free market" in education?  Which group is instructing which in the use of a fish to [...]

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The Flavors of Our Mindless Totality

Okay, here’s what we now have for political parties.  I base this on the two things I’m most aware of: the privatization movement in education (long-standing but now on the brink of take-over) and our finally open acknowledgement that we are a War & Terror State. We now have a Corporate Party with a fundamentalist [...]

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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 worldview where production is only quantifiable and quality must ape the measurements of assessment; and that’s the kindest way to [...]

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The Chaos of Monoculture

I hope you had a nice Father’s Day. Mine was blessed with the gift of multiple cheeses…what more can you [...]

The Custom House: Louis Agassiz with Christoph Irmscher

Episode 2 is now available for download: Agassiz, Inc. Please share far and wide, early and often. Thanks! This week [...]

The Errant Goes Audible: The Custom House on WFHB

I am hosting a radio show and podcast on WFHB, community radio, in Bloomington, IN, called The Custom House that [...]

Who Runs the Indianapolis Public Schools?

Who runs our IPS? “The crisis is not about education at all. It’s about power.” ~ James BaldwinOverview:Traditionally, local school [...]

What is Learning?

Question: Define the purpose of guttering on a house. Answer: Choose the response that represents your thinking. a. to catch [...]

The Great Lawsuit (Audio)

This is the essay that led to Fuller’s longer treatment on the Rights of Women titled Woman in the 19th Century. [...]