Peter McLaren's Review of The Mismeasure of Education
We posted a piece of Peter's remarks in the advance reviews, but his inimitable style and rhetorical sweep here is classic McLaren. Both humbling and gratifying:It is no exaggeration to say that public education is under threat of extinction. The uneven but inexorable progress of neoliberal economic policies clearly provided the incubus for transferring the magisterium of education in its entiret
Should SC Increase Charter School Investment? No!
Charter school advocates are calling for more investment from South Carolina, according to Jamie Self at The State (Columbia, SC):South Carolina’s public charter schools struggle to find and pay for space, and often end up without access to kitchens, libraries, or places for kids to play – a problem the S.C. General Assembly needs to address, according to a new report.The challenges that the state
11-30-13 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Schools Matter All Week mark as readDisaster Capitalism, Dugger, Indiana, and the Fall of Community SchoolsBy Doug MartinAs Naomi Klein shows in her frightening book Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, for decades the big plan of America’s millionaires and billionaires and the government officials they buy with campaign money has been to slash taxes (“austerity"