In my last piece, The Truth about the Project School Closing: The Indiana Corporate School Complex,” I noted how Indy mayor Greg Ballard was promoting a school privatizing movement full of crony capitalism, propaganda, and lots of money, one at odds with the community-led/social justice Project School. Therefore, the fact that Ballard, last year, accepted tons of [...]
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China On My Mind: Seeing Indiana
“Never think of a surface except as the extension of a volume…” Henry Moore (out of Rodin) quoted by Donal Hall China was forced upon me. Look, but don’t read beyond the excerpts below, unless you have a lot of time and a mind that can hold any number of contradictory ideas at one time [...]
Jay Greene and Roland Fryer–Clearing a Path for “Liberal” Eugenics
First, Jay Greene makes 150k per annum from WalMart graft through his assignment as the Chief for Change in the Educational Propaganda Department at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; likely he gets “scholarships” and speaking fees and free vacations from any number of ALEC-related, Jeb Bush “emceed” events; but, because this is not enough, [...]
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” as a joke?). He is, as I’ve said many times, a paid proponent of the Friedmanian Theology of “Market as [...]
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 the “Occupy DOE” video that we blogged about here on Friday, “Occupy the DOE: New York’s Panel on Educational Policy [...]
Occupy School Reform: Against Stealing Our Public Schools
I don’t know how to tell you this; we’re getting our asses handed to us on a platter. By we, I mean those of us who are against the corporate school reform movement. My friend Brian recently challenged me to simply offer one thing I could do in a “protest” fashion that would have a [...]
