Yesterday the pasty puppet of the plutocrats had his speechwriters put together some marvelous-sounding platitudes aimed to make teachers believe that he, Duncan, respects them. This is all a part of the new PR push to get passage of NCLB, The Sequel, which will, indeed, be cast as an unlimited bribery fund based on the […]
Duncan Brings Comedy Improv to Denver to Sell Evaluation for All Based on Test Scores
February 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In the looming shadow of a Chicago scandal that is in the process of sinking any minor mayoral hopes of Gerry Chico in Chicago, the Billionaire Boys’ Club (BBC) brought Arne Duncan and some Second City comics to Denver for a big feel-good feed for school board members, school administrators, and teachers from around the […]
Number 1 in the World, Mr. Duncan? Really? You Have Got to Be Kidding Me
February 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Arne Duncan Has Been to the Mountaintop–to See Which Way the Political Winds Are Blowing
January 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Arne Duncan Has His Sputnik and Rosa Parks Moments Mixed Up
December 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Historians now tell us that Sputnik was much more a propaganda and public relations gimmick than it was an indication of Soviet technological and educational superiority. The American Vanguard 1, in fact, could have launched first, and our former Nazi rocket brain trust in Huntsville was furious that Eisenhower didn’t launch first. But if you […]
Duncan Decries Segregation While Rewarding Apartheid Charters
October 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The audacity of Arne Duncan was on display again Saturday, as Arne spoke before the ABA in Chicago: . . . U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan said if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he’d be disheartened to see so many schools still effectively segregated. “Dr. King would have been angered […]
The New Segregated Buses Are Lining Up for Arne Duncan’s Rosa Parks Moment
October 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Two weeks ago in DC, hedge funders, vulture venture philanthropists, lobbyists, their hosts (our politicians), a sprinkling of black folks who could pass the brown paper bag test, and a host of corporate underlings glassy-eyed with positivity, all came together in what Arne Duncan described as a Rosa Parks moment, this one sponsored by America’s […]
Exposing the Corporate Education Reform Fraud
September 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Obama Education Blueprint Researchers Examine the Evidence Edited by:William J. Mathis, University of Colorado, BoulderKevin G. Welner, University of Colorado – Boulder A volume in the series: The National Education Policy Center Series. Series Editor(s): Kevin G. Welner, University of Colorado – Boulder and Alex Molnar, Arizona State University Published 2010A Publication of the […]
Why Its Called Microsoft-NBC
September 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Oligarchs are in gear, pushing Arne hard for their corporate takeover of public schools. Schedule from Russo: THE WEEK AHEAD: Sunday, Sept. 26 – Friday, Oct. 1 (All Events are EDT) Sunday, Sept. 26 10:30 a.m. The Secretary will appear on Meet the Press on MSNBC. Monday, Sept. 277 a.m. The secretary will appear […]
Arne Duncan’s "Rosa Parks Moment"
September 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Having often declared segregated corporate school reform as the “civil rights issue of this generation,” Arne Duncan just placed himself on a whole new circle of Orwellian doublespeak hell by declaring last evening’s extended commercial for the corporate charter crusade as a “Rosa Parks moment.” From the Hollywood Reporter: Calling it a “Rosa Parks moment,” […]
Duncan and Obama Enabling Christie’s Public Demolition Projects
Jersey Roundup: On a day when the NJ Supreme Court heard a challenge to Governor Christie’s $1.6 billion in school aid cuts, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan came to Newark and failed to offer support for full funding of the state’s public schools. Instead he embraced Governor Christie as a “partner” in his education reform […]