StickWithANose

The idea that a social structure built around the ideal of “I’m gonna get mine, screw everybody else” is somehow just or even stable over the long-run boggles that mind. However, the evidence that we’re further fragmenting along racial, class and cultural line continues to mount, and the results of this process will be just [...]

We’ve long had to endure the hollow narrative of the “Liberal Media” from the noise machine, and it was always a load of manure. However, it is a narrative that has burrowed deeply into the republican psyche with little evidence that it might go away any time soon. So, here’s one to save for those [...]

Diane Ravitch has reached the same conclusion as I in regard to where current trends in education reform are leading us. The “free marketeers”  driving the education policies of BOTH political parties are not interested in capitalism and market competition; they seek to create and dominate politicized educational markets. Their primary concern is to establish [...]

As I’ve noted repeatedly, corporate charter school organizations are using their “public” mandates as investment tools that real estate speculators gobble up for obvious reasons.
Inland Public Properties Development Inc, a subsidiary of Inland American Real Estate Investment Trust Inc., has purchased seven charter schools for $61 million. The sales-leaseback deal includes schools managed by Imagine [...]

Schools Matter has the lowdown on Rylie Family Faith Inc.’s charter school mills that have been draining public coffers in Texas for the benefit of owners Don and Karen Belknap and their family. All of the elements are there: accounting fraud, nepotism, imaginary billing, etc. It’s quite a read… Welcome to the future of public [...]

If you need more evidence that current trends in corporate-driven education reform are little more than a farce wrapped in the rhetoric of educational equality, behold the Walton Family’s latest contribution to our fair nation!
The Detroit Public Schools have teamed up with Walmart Stores to provide job training and entry-level, afterschool jobs to students at [...]

This post by Andy Xie is a long but fascinating read dealing with future prospects for China’s economy. I claim no expertise in global economic theory, but this is just too good to not pass on…
First Xie supplies some context:
In previous financial crises, big shots who contributed to bubbles went to jail; Americans expect [...]

“Being willing to sit in a boring classroom for 12 years, and then sign up for four more years and then sign up for three or more years after that—well, that’s a pretty good measure of your willingness to essentially do what you’re told,” Samuel Bowles

I was going to dedicate today’s post to this blatant attempt by Tennessee House Replicants to open the door to the state’s university system to an even greater level of cronyism and corruption than we currently enjoy [please do call your representatives on this one], but then I came across this really good idea being [...]