New HuffPo entry is up, but how the hell is there a typo in the title on the education homepage? It’s not there when I click on the article. How embarrassing. Ugh.
More on the "STEM shortage"
November 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Thanks but no thanks
November 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Will Citizens of All Political Stripes Coalesce Against the Billionaire Boys’ Club?
November 29, 2010 By 1 Comment
For many Democrats and Republicans (at least the ones that Diane Ravitch likes to remember), the intrusion of the federal government into state and local education issues has been an acceptable burden to bear, since it was only the Federal government that could guarantee the enforcement of civil rights laws. In fact, ESEA was enacted […]
Councilman Barron Calls for Parent Boycott of NY Schools Until Qualified Chancellor Is Appointed
November 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
From Gothamist: . . . .Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and other city pols say they will file a temporary restraining order to block her [Black's] appointment, which Jeffries said state Education Commissioner David Steiner didn’t want to approve anyway. “Commissioner Steiner appears to have made this decision in the back room with Mayor Bloomberg whispering in […]
Black Advised Corporate Welfare Queen, Deborah Kenny, on Management and Book Deal
November 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
There is reason for Deborah Kenny to be smiling. As CEO of Harlem Village Academies charter school in charge of 450 students in total, she raked in $442,000 this past year. Connection to Cathie Black? Nothing having to do with education, it seems, even though Black touts her connection to Harlem Village as the source […]
Educational Planning, Parts I and II
November 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Oprah and Eli
November 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For some it has been a mystery why someone with Oprah’s public image would be up to her neck in corporate education reform built on planned segregation and exploitation of the poor and the brown. Yet her recent 60-minute infomercial with Gates and Guggenheim to pump Waiting for Superman is indicative of her aggressive parroting […]
Responding to Thomas Friedman: Poverty, not teachers’ rank in graduating class
November 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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John Walton: DFER Catalyst?
November 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
John Walton: DFER catalyst? So says Whitney Tilson in an interview from his documentary, A Right Denied. Here is a snippet: [DFER was started] …with a few other friends that are involved with a couple other other charter schools, and they were money managers like me involved with a couple similarly high-performing charter schools, we finally […]
Ravitch is right. Gates is wrong.
Ravitch is right, Gates is wrong. My comment on “Ravitch answers Gates,” The Answer Sheet: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/diane-ravitch/ravitch-answers-gates.html Ravitch is right, Gates is wrong. And those who think American education is broken are wrong, and so are those who think that Ravitch et al (I think I’m the et in et al) do not believe in helping […]