[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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]






