In the early 19th Century, an efficiency zealot before his time named Joseph Lancaster came up with a monitorial system for schooling the urban poor, wherein a single teacher served as overseer for classes as large as 500 students. With what might be thought of as a kind early Gingrich-style system using student assistants, these […]
Bloomberg Wants to Double Teacher Salaries–By Doubling Class Size
December 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Oligarchs’ Booker T. in KC Resigns, Leaving Big Broadie Shadow
August 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Above: Booker T. Washington and the backers of racist industrial education policies Loyal Broadie, John Covington (Class of ’08), is headed to Michigan to perform more corporate reform-schooler meat axe surgery on the ailing body of the state’s public schools. Covington announced his decision to leave the Kansas City Superintendent’s post last Wednesday afternoon, and […]
RESPECTing the Best Teachers with Larger Classes
Sara Mosle, a charter corps member from TFA (Class of 1990), has written a propaganda piece in the NYTimes hailing the latest bad idea by corporate reform schoolers: larger classes for the teachers who do best raising test scores. If you were without mind enough to believe Mosle, this revival of an old idea of […]