This Week in “Please Shut Up”: Arne Duncan
This Week in “Please Shut Up” should have been aimed at George Will and that he really needs to shut up about rape. But, instead, let’s look at Secretary of Education Arne Duncan who has held forth on the Vergaras ruling in California: The ruling was hailed by the nation’s top education chief as bringing to California — and possibly the nation — an opportunity to build “a new framework for the tea
Gates Moratorium Another Scam: Beware the Roadbuilders pt. 2
The road to hell is not paved with good intentions. [1] The road to hell in the U.S. of the 21st century is paved with the appearance of good intentions fostered by billionaires. Billionaires are our roadbuilders, and in education reform the main roadbuilder is Bill Gates. Gates is a billionaire education hobbyist who started a road to small schools, only to bail, but has since shifted his roadbui
Bessie: A Tale of Two Vergaras: Of Stardom and the End of Teacher Tenure
Please read latest from Adam Bessie A Tale of Two Vergaras: Of Stardom and the End of Teacher Tenure.
6-10-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Twitter Truth (and The Onion Gets It Again)As I have catalogued on this blog and elsewhere, when it comes to education policy, my home state of South Carolina is A Heaping Stumbling-Bumbling Mess of Ineptitude. And while we have garnered a sort of unwanted but fully warr