Archive for November 30th, 2009
The Gravy Train
In previous posts, I’ve pointed toward the underlying motivation behind the charter school movement as being the colonization of a new marketplace funded by taxpayers, see here and here. However, it would be a mistake to believe that this trend is isolated to K-12 education. As this AP article details, the for-profit tertiary sector is [...]
Posted: November 30th, 2009 under Education Policy, Politics.
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On Celebrity Worship
One of the sadder realities of contemporary American society is the culture of hero worship that fills-up countless hours of television programming. Despite the exhortations of public intellectuals [who are themselves the object of hero worship] decrying the un-American “liberalism” being propagated by the “celebrity culture” of Hollywood, the thimble-deep discourse that dominates much of [...]
Posted: November 30th, 2009 under Popular Culture.
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