StickWithANose

As I’ve noted previously, the on-going disaster that is the Obama administration’s approach to education reform is little more than a policy push designed to create yet another conduit for the looting of public treasuries. Today’s example comes from the great state of Florida. Take a peek at how the state plans to spend its [...]

In today’s Slate, Jacob Weisberg lays out the problems facing our nation without candy coating, and it speaks to a subject that is near and dear to my heart. The primary issue facing our nation is, at its root, an educational one.
In trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much [...]

The charter school juggernaut is not only an educational failure… It is a failure of civil rights.
While segregation for blacks among all public schools has increased over the last two decades, black students in charters are far more likely than their traditional public school counterparts to be educated in intensely segregated settings. Fully 70 percent [...]

It is now official. Obama’s administration has not only adopted Republican education policies as its own, but he has also embraced their methodology for accomplishing its ultimate goal.  There is only one option left for those who value public education as being a public institution immune from corporate looting… Schools Matter:
The only thing remaining for [...]

As someone with a background in Cultural Studies, this piece from the BBC hit home for me. Cultural Studies emerged from Birmingham, England in response to the rise of Thatcherism. The central question that occupied the minds of those at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was the question of why it is that poor [...]