Protests Spread Against Huffman Among Tennessee School Administrators
In the most recent outbreak of protests against Kevin Huffman's mis-leaderership of Tennessee schools,The Marshall County Board of Education has formally endorsed a letter recently submitted to Gov. Bill Haslam and the General Assembly that expresses discontent with the current leadership in the Department of Education.The eight-member school board approved the single page resolution Tuesday at a
Michael Goldenberg's Review of The Mismeasure of Education
By Michael P. Goldenberg "Markov Chaney"This review posted at Amazon.THE MISMEASURE OF EDUCATION pays homage in its title to Stephen Jay Gould's classic MISMEASURE OF MAN, a book that exposed much of the sordid history of intelligence testing in the United States and how it became almost from its inception tainted by racist assumptions and an obsession with rank-ordering human being
Petrilli's Embarrassing Post about Poor Mothers Being "Bad"
This post is embarrassing—both for the content and the fact that Petrilli appears unaware how embarrassing it is.Single-mothers are not "bad"; they are overwhelmed.Education is not to create economically self-sufficient people (that serves the privileged who feed off the economy). Education's goals are much BIGGER than that—self-awareness and complete autonomy, within which economic self
How Bill Gates Views the World
Money is power.Power is money.Bill Gates has too much of both.Valerie Strauss gets it—that Bill Gates is not what education needs: “Education reform should not be driven by private philanthropists with their own agendas, however well-intentioned.”Ultimately, the problem is Gates’s view of the world. And there is no better way to express that view than the chess scene in Mel Brooks’s History of the
9-28-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Schools MatterAre Americans reading less?Sent to the New York Daily News, Sept. 27, 2013The Daily News reported that "Less than half of Americans read for fun last year, National Endowment for the Arts survey shows" (Sept. 26).This is not quite accurate.The NEA reported that 54.5% of those surveyed said they read at least one book last year, nearly identical to the resul