Yesterday Steve at School Matters offered a post on Indy Mayor Greg Ballard’s decision to revoke TPS’s Charter (see Doug Martin’s thorough account here). I anticipated trouble by the title alone: Choice vs. standards at the Indianapolis Project School. Is that what this is about? It got worse. Stayed that way and ended that way. Steve maintained [...]
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A Reasoned Resistance
Below we find (in bold) the reason why, as I put forth in “The Plunder Years,” it is necessary to stand against systems serving utilitarian and martial purposes; we find these to be argued in similar terms privileging a quantifiable end defined by a biased conception of “the good.” Systems need good men and women [...]
Local Instruction in National Pieties: “Wasting Seed Corn”
Editors Note: There is too much to say. And it’s all already been said, written, sung, screamed. Beginning on September 11 and continuing through September 20 the Herald-Times has printed 19 items that reference the death of a local youth sent soldiering. Two of these are obituaries, the first incomplete due to lack of funeral [...]
