So, the accountability is that teachers use it all as they are told to? So, a new, better package comes the next year if the numbers are not right? Kris, this is a clear article. You are always informative. I respect your knowledge of how all this chicanery works. However, I grow increasingly narcoleptic hearing […]
Living in Numbers and Inequities
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
[Prompted by a blog comment from a parent regarding his children’s privacy and the law (See: dianeravitch.net) and while heading into the city to join other educators, parents, students, people, assembling to give greater voice to the conditions of public education.] The takeover of public education is a picture of a contrived perfect storm. Starving […]
So, is Direct and Purposeful Teaching Anti-Constructivist?
March 12, 2013 By 1 Comment
“When it is agreed that all students must know the same things at the same times in order to move on to the next thing that all students must know at the same time, you have killed constructivism. And, as Sir Ken Robinson has virally said, you’ve also killed creativity.” (Quote from Sir Ken Robinson […]
Response to Brian White
March 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Sac Schools Get Sacked
February 21, 2013 By 3 Comments
There’s Trouble Coming to Paradise
February 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Way down here in Hawai’i a lot doesn’t happen. The firestorm of resistance to the federal and private subsidizing of the ongoing extraction of more wealth from anyone outside the ruling uberclass in America is virtually non-existent. A couple of days ago, as I entered a nearby middle school office, I witnessed two teachers wearing […]
Power Comes From Everywhere: Hearing the Sound of Resolute
February 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Keith and Cenk left MSNBC. They uncovered the stories beyond the allowable corporate dictum. And these two became marginalized from cable television and a larger viewership. I was up on a friend’s farm in Squamish, B.C., Canada a long time ago while I was living in the area doing organ transplants down in a lab […]
January 20, 2013 By 1 Comment
Of course RTTT is extortion. Of course no one is talking much about it beyond some of us in the choir. Fear and intimidation. The rentier class, the big moneyed elite are controlling the message. Witness: Wikileaks, Schwartz, etc. Most conclude NCLB was the scaffolding for RTTT. In fact, the beginning of educational tyranny began […]
Public Good and the Will of the Ownership Class
December 30, 2012 By 3 Comments
Our economy, that is, the economy owned by the one percent, is no longer centered on production and consumer purchases. It is no longer a part of employment. It is increasingly centered, controlled by credit creation which, in turn, is used to create profits and income in the form of interest payments until any economic […]
On the Radar
December 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
That we should not be amused; that we should need explain the use of nosism should explain our position. As one of the “we,” I thank this blog site as a venture to avail people to comments and posts considering all which is limitless experience, empiric and theoretical. Take what’s happening in Michigan, for example. […]
Education in America: right or privilege?
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