Exactly the number of signatures required in Ohio to get the the Koch/Kasich union killing bill onto a November referendum: Now that the Ohio state Legislature has passed legislation limiting the collective bargaining rights of public employees unions, with Gov. John Kasich expected to sign the bill as soon as Friday, the fight moves out […]
Governor Rick Snyder: Why There Is an "A" and a "Hole" in "A-Hole"
March 31, 2011 By 1 Comment
NC Tea Party Working to Insure Wake County Resegregation Holds
March 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Recently the Koch-Heads in the North Carolina legislature introduced a bill that would have the State create its own school accreditation body, just in case AdvanceEd votes to withdraw accreditation for Wake County high schools for the County’s irresesponsible and mis-educative resegregation practices. Now some of the same geniuses that sponsored that bill have brought […]
#Rhee #FAIL
March 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
So much on #education
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Tim Slekar on #Fauxnews
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More money for testing, less money for learning
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More money for testing, less for learning Sent to the New York Times, March 30, 2011 Buried deep in “In City Schools, Tech Spending to Rise Despite Cuts,” (March 30) is a statement by “city officials” that the huge expenditures for technology are primarily to make it possible for students to take computerized national standardized […]
All right, she’s an #idiot
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Can Chess Improve Reading?
March 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Humane Schooling vs. KIPP-Genics
March 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
At the segregated KIPP containment camps, children who have signed away, along with their parents, all their rights as humans are subjected to a relentless and rigid psychological sterilization process that leaves KIPPsters unable to separate their capacity to affect the world from the KIPP brainwashing message that centers on instilling a false sense individual […]
Off to Kansas City
My posts may be limited for another day. I was in an elementary school all day today supervising pre-service teachers, then I’ll fly out at the butt-crack of dawn tomorrow to Kansas City for an AMSA meeting. Their website is here. I’ve done a good amount of work on masculinity in education, the lack of […]