UPDATE: open admission from a “scholar.” + Seeds of the Dogmatic Scholar – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER

Seeds of the Dogmatic Scholar – @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER:

@teachingquality, please tell me this is a joke. It has to be. @edushyster?

by Chalk Face, PhD

Am I missing something? Teacherpreneurs, this sounds like a joke. Is this author serious? Exhibit A: I know what you’re thinking. You want to make an impact beyond your classroom while feeding your creative passions (which probably drove you into teaching in the first place). Thirty years of teaching in a silo might not sustain [...]

An open admission from a “scholar.” #highered #AERA13

by Chalk Face, PhD

I am not a writer. I am not an author. I’ve written. I’ve authored. But I am not a writer. I am not an author. I’ve written many papers. I’ve authored book chapters and articles. Being halfway decent at writing these documents is likely what set me up to pursue a PhD. It’s not as [...]

Seeds of the Dogmatic Scholar

by plthomasedd

The think tank as a pseudo-scholarly mechanism to promote free market ideology depends on the dogmatic scholar. All aspects of education in the U.S. have been directly and indirectly impacted by the rise of think tank advocacy and dogmatic scholars, even as departments in flagship state universities such as the school choice advocacy coming out of the University of Arkansas’s Department of Education Reform.

While the current education reform movement built on corporate models has its roots in the early 1980s and Ronald Reagan’s manufactured crisis, A Nation at Risk, the seeds of the orchestrated advocacy masquerading as scholarship lie with amemo from Lewis Powell from 1971, including how Powell’s recommendationsdirectly impacted education. [1]

In part, the strategy included the following recommendations presented to the US Chamber of Commerce by Powell:

• “The Chamber should consider establishing a staff of highly qualified scholars 

Here’s what those “civil rights” organizations really wanted to say

by Chalk Face, PhD

The original post here. Filed under: CHALK FACE: General News & Commentary Tagged: civil rights, copaa, dfer, easter seals, Education Trust, letter

It is time for public school advocates to become “irate.”

by Chalk Face, PhD

This video is of a Boston man going into a beautiful rant against right-wing conspiracy nuts affiliated with radio host Alex Jones, who believe that the FBI purposely set the bombs during the marathon. I’m not suggesting we make comparisons between “education reform” and terrorism or vast government conspiracies. However, some are out there pushing [...]