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Privatizing public education is one potential source of new wealth being explored by the wealthiest Americans, who seek to profit on everyone else’s losses and who buy politicians with the same ease that normal people buy groceries. Continue Reading
As a result of the press for school privatization, the United States will find itself with an alienated underclass with no commitment to a common social contract. Continue Reading
School administrators’ only reason for being must be to support the mission of the schools – that being educating children, which means providing teachers with what they need to carry out their responsibilities to the children. Continue Reading
We cannot even begin to discuss school reform until we deal with parenting reform. How can we convince parents that they are the front lines of education? Continue Reading
To instruct and teach the young has been a part of the human social contract since long before our ancestors swung down from their trees on the African savanna. And isn’t it just amazing that we are, in 2011, arguing about what education is and how best to go about it? Continue Reading
Perhaps the time has come to have a public dialog that is not about charter schools, vouchers, tax credits, magnet schools, free schools, grading schools and teachers, ending social promotion, corporal punishment, and so on. Continue Reading
On evidence, public education is remarkably resilient in spite of its pronounced shortcomings, evading one doomsday after another. The monster is such that society seems to have no choice but to complain while, at the same time, paying for it. Continue Reading
It seems obvious, given her complete lack of educational credentials and her political background, that Hanna Skandera is a foot soldier in an ideological war taking place right now against working people – teachers and other unionized workers. Continue Reading