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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Has Obama grown a couple? Or is this just more rhetorical magic lacking in substantive action?