StickWithANose

Since I’ve been rather obsessed with the framing [or killing] of public discourse as of late, I would like to continue on that theme. Education Week is pimping a new documentary film, Two Million Minutes, by entrepreneur Robert Compton detailing a successful charter school. The film is a follow-up to a previous film by Mr. [...]

While my previous post on the dangers of the fanaticism now dominating our political discourse may, in fact, be emblematic of the ’spirit of the age’ and might even be interpreted as being hyperbolic, the “dangers” to which I was referring are visible all around us… if we take the time to look. The goal [...]

Listening to teabaggers yell about how they’re losing their country, it is hard to understand what exactly has changed so much in the last eight months. The majority of the policies established under the previous Imperial Presidency [the one that claimed it could ignore all laws when fighting a war which it alone can declare [...]

It appears as though Australian philanthropists want to get in on the corporate schooling train by importing that very American invention, Teach for [insert nationality]. Here in the states, the only contrarian views on the corporatization of public schooling that make it to print are couched in infantile narratives of teachers unions and reformers, but [...]

While it may represent one lone voice yelling into the vortex of popular discourse, this article in the Boston Globe uses international examples of successful education reform to offer up some common sense ideas that, unfortunately, stand little chance of gaining a foothold in the US.
AS PRESIDENT OBAMA prepares to address the nation’s students via [...]

The corporate nightmare that is the Center for American Progress not only continues to muddy the water of political discourse by re-packaging Republican policies as being ‘progressive’ [whatever that term means these days] but it has now hoisted upon the public yet another unaccountable political pundit speaking from his be-hind.
It seems to me that the [...]

This NYT piece should dispel any doubts as to where we are headed as a nation.
After the mortgage business imploded last year, Wall Street investment banks began searching for another big idea to make money. They think they may have found one.
The bankers plan to buy “life settlements,” life insurance policies that ill and elderly [...]

As I noted previously, the Texas State Board of Education is playing games with history textbook standards so as to bring needed attention to such pivotal figures in our nation’s history as Newt [I messed around on my wife while preaching family values] Gingrich and Phyllis [I want to ensure that women don't get a [...]

Greetings Space Fans! Stick landed a new teaching gig and has spent the last week bogged down with class prep and other fun stuff…. I hope to begin more regular posting shortly.
In more interesting news, the village idiot of the week award goes again to Fox’s Glenn Beck. It appears as though Glenn has discovered [...]