Financial Killings – And Educational Corpses
The front page of today’s New York Times carries a devastating feature portrait of ‘virtual’ schooling, and the K-12 corporation founded by former Reagan Secretary of Education William Bennett which is making a financial killing off of indefensible ‘virtual’ charter schools. This is the unseemly reality of the future of American education advocated by Terry Moe in his Orwellian titled book, Liberating Learning.
David Montgomery, 1927-2011
David Montgomery, an esteemed historian of American labor, has died. Montgomery was a union organizer, blacklisted in the McCarthy years, before he became a professional historian.He never forget those roots: he was a powerful supporter of labor unions while at Yale University,
In the British Guardian, Eric Foner has a moving obituary.