StickWithANose

I’ve been posting on the stupidity going down in Texas over its new curriculum standards for some time, and the madness now looks poised to go into overdrive. The genius behind this push to introduce conservatism into the social studies curriculum, Don McLeroy, has proven to be too crazy for even his evangelical base and [...]

Former Assistant Secretary of Education under George H. Bush and Bill Clinton and noted think tank scholar Diane Ravitch has undergone a conversion of sorts from being a strong proponent of charter schools to a fierce opponent. The impetus for her conversion is the mounting evidence that, despite their popularity on both sides of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]