UPDATE: Consumed by Advocacy in the Marketplace of Mendacity – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER

Consumed by Advocacy in the Marketplace of Mendacity – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER:

Colorado Observer and Sunana Batra (@cold666pack) Censor Comments supportive of Teacher Brian White

by Timothy D. Slekar

Do you remember Brian White?  You know…the teacher from Colorado that decided to fight back against corporate education reform.  The teacher who spoke these words at his local school board meeting: Good evening. My name is Brian White. I’m a parent of two young children currently enrolled in Douglas County schools, a taxpayer, involved community [...]

The Benefits (and Costs) of School Reform in Three Cities Part I

by John Thompson

The contemporary school “reform” movement has been amazingly brazen in proclaiming their supposed successes in increasing student performance. A study by Elaine Weiss and Don Long of the Broader Bolder Approach shows, however, that those achievements evaporate upon close examination. “Market-Oriented Education Reforms’ Rhetoric Trumps Reality” documents the minimal gains and the significant damage done [...]

Consumed by Advocacy in the Marketplace of Mendacity

by plthomasedd

Big Daddy and Brick confront the power of mendacity in a key scene from Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, swept into popular culture by the1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor (Maggie), Paul Newman (Brick), and Burl Ives (Big Daddy).

In the play, Big Daddy replies to Brick’s question, “Have you ever heard the word ‘mendacity’?”:

Sure. Mendacity is one of them five dollar words that politicians throw back and forth at each other….

Don’t it mean lying and liars?…

I’ve lived with mendacity!—Why can’t you live with it? Hell, you