(Past) Time for education profiteers to take a walk: Blast from the past #1 | AMPS

(Past) Time for education profiteers to take a walk: Blast from the past #1 | AMPS:

(Past) Time for education profiteers to take a walk: Blast from the past #1

by Thomas J. Mertz

“JUST ABOUT TIME HE TOOK A WALK!.,” original caption, The American School Board Journal, July 1921.

The O’ Jays – “For The Love Of Money” (click to listen or download)

This is the first in a new series on AMPS: Blasts from the Past.  It will be devoted to historical materials that comment on or illuminate contemporary issues in education.  I’ll usually  also post some links to recent, related things and often a song too.  I’m a historian by training, so I feel compelled to say that historical analogs should always be carefully examined, develops in the past are never identical to developments in the present.  Both continuity and change should be assessed.  In this series the emphasis will be on continuity, but I realize that’s