Apartheid Schooling in New Jersey
Bob Braun's Ledger: on One NewarkI remember standing in line at the career fair at the New Jersey university where I received my Master of Arts in Teaching and certification to teach secondary history and social studies. The line at the Newark table was vacant. No one, not one person, was interested in starting a career in Newark New Jersey public schools. Despite financial incentives, jobs in New
Fox News Viewers at Socialist Health Clubs
I work out at a city-owned health club, where old men who hate government come in their white tennis shoes and walk on the new municipally-owned treadmills, while watching the babes on FoxNews hand out to them their morning doses of hate. They walk, glower, and sour without apparent purpose other than to make their hearts harder as hard as their arteries. But yesterday I figured out how to get ol
More Bogus Research from UofArkansas's Walmart School of Ed Reform
What a shame that a great state university like Arkansas would allow billionaire bullshit "research" to sully its good name!NEPC has reviewed the recent charter school "research" study by Jay Greene and his team and found it severely lacking in most everything that research requires to be legitimate:BOULDER, CO (August 19, 2014) –A recent report from the University of Arkansas
Workforce Investment Act Becomes $3 Billion Handout to Predatory "Colleges"
No bills get through Congress these days without an overwhelming amount of money to be made by both sides of the corporate aisle. Such a bill sailed through last month without so much as racial slur at the President, something quite unheard of in the age of an ostensibly-black Commander in Chief. The legislation is called the Workforce Investment Act, and it's worth $3.1 billion to corporate hig
8-17-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Teaching is Not a Business!!!Teaching Is Not a BusinessBy DAVID L. KIRPAUG. 16, 2014PhotoCreditEleanor DavisContinue reading the main storyShare This PageTODAY’S education reformers believe that schools are broken and that business can supply the remedy. Some place their faith in the idea of competition. Others embrace disruptive innovation, mainly through online learning. Both cam