Teacher Preparation and the Bottom Line: Dear College and University Leaders.
Dear College and University Presidents, Chancellors, and CEOs, Please do some simple calculations for me. How much revenue does student enrollment generate? How many of these students are enrolled in some kind of teacher-credentialing program? How much revenue do these programs generate? Go ahead. Do it. Take a few minutes of your valuable time and […]
Business, marketing, branding, no integrity whatsoever #khanacademy
Over at Think Progress, there’s a post on an absurd budget calculator sponsored by McDonald’s and Visa to help hardworking minimum wage workers with financial literacy. A worthwhile cause, no doubt. As you can see in the image below, the sample provided helpfully includes space to budget income for your second job, because a McJob […]
NYTimes Editorial Board Dancing the CorpEd Soft Shoe
Clarence Thomas is one of those exceptional black men who climbed to the top in his field and then pulled up the ladder behind him. As a representative of the U. S. Supreme Court’s tokenism, Thomas reliably parrots the white conservative justices who, otherwise, would view him with the same mixture of fear and disdain […]
Consequences of the Business Model of Education
Ever wonder what it would look like if business leaders and profiteers got a hold of education? Welcome to the new normal. Another consequence of the high stakes testing, competitive, winner take all game being played out in public schools across the country is having a far deeper impact on society that can’t be measured […]
Collaborationist Responds to Posts on TURNcoats
There is a cancer inside AFT and NEA is The Union Reform Network (TURN). I have posted previously on this and one of TURN’s members, Jimmy , had this response to TURN (Teachers Union Reform Network): Agents and Collaborators: In the ed reform debates of the day, what we need most are intelligent arguments that show […]
Contention is so high in Chicago, you apparently have to apply to even sit in a public meeting
Something seems very wrong that you have to be approved to sit in on a public meeting. What is the Board trying to hide?
Pic of a Pearson edpsych text. Is this a problem? I think it is.
I saw this posted, a quick grab of a table from an educational psychology text. Not an ELL or linguistics or language arts texts. Educational psychology. Is it me, or is standard English being pitted against the variations spoken by persons of color? I mean, are all African Americans and Hispanics the same? Are all […]
This, not this: On our feet, to the street
Let’s do this. For example, this is a powerful image of a San Francisco protest on behalf of Trayvon Martin. Unbelievable. Not to diminish the necessity of this outrage, but if only we could have such momentum on issues within education. Amazing. Now, in contrast, let us not waste our time with this: asinine debates […]
7-14-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Trayvon Martin Convicted: Sentence to Run Concurrent with EternityIf this case teaches anything, it is that the high crime of involuntary racism regularly has more insidious and corrosive effects than the premeditated variety. There was the 1) tepid prosecution by unprepared and inattentive prosecutors; 2) a defense that was allowed highly-irregular concessions to