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Friday, June 3, 2011

Schools Matter: Big Time Self-Plagiarism, Punked Web Lemmings, and Chain Gangs for All? Part 1

Schools Matter: Big Time Self-Plagiarism, Punked Web Lemmings, and Chain Gangs for All? Part 1

Big Time Self-Plagiarism, Punked Web Lemmings, and Chain Gangs for All? Part 1

Part of my unpaid job is to sniff out the grisliest of educational abuses and to publicly ridicule them in ways that are reality-based, researched, honest, and entertaining. That is why I spend so much time on KIPP, which I view as the greatest threat to the possibility for humane and healthy schooling for poor children.

And if that is not enough reason to give it my top priority, then there is today's troubling coalition of both ramrod conservatives and neoliberals who embrace these segregated sweat boxes in much the same way the same unnatural allies did at about this time last century, when America became swept up in the Hitler-inspiringpseudoscience of eugenics, or How to Create a Pure and Efficient Race by Doing What is "best" for the Defectives. Ah, Race to the Top--I get it now.

What first gained popularity through county fair contests for the best examples of the whitest and healthiest