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Schooling in the Ownership Society
Schooling in the Ownership Society
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Schooling in the Ownership Society
Nine years since Katrina. Maybe some justice for New Orleans teachers.
On Sept. 4th, the State Supreme Court will hear the case of 7,000 teachers fired after Hurricane Katrina. "Katrina accomplished in a day ... what Louisiana school reformers couldn't do after years of trying". -- American Enterprise Institute. When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast exactly nine years ago, New Orleans school chief Paul Vallas saw the disaster as an opportunity to car
YESTERDAY
Last night on the Patti Vasquez Show
I had a great time last night on WGN's Patti Vasquez Show even though I didn't get to say much. Great lesson there.Dynamic rapper and political activist, Che "Rhymefest" Smith and the two outstanding young men he brought with him, Mike Taylor and Mammoth, carried the show which took off from the celebration of the Jackie Robinson West Little League Champs and then went global.Rhymefest,
AUG 28
Talking violence, trauma tonight on WGN
LATE-NIGHTERS...I'll be back on WGN tonight at 11:30, on the Patti Vasquez Show. Along with a few other noteworthy Chicagoans I'll be talking about gun violence. You can call in and join the conversation.Doctors demand trauma centerI'm certainly going to take issue with the Univ. of Chicago getting approval from the State Board to build a new $67 million medical facility in suburban Orland Park. M
AUG 26
Duncan's unsolicited confession: He's choking education.
EPIPHANY...Arne Duncan has been talking with lots of teachers, principals and other educators, he claims, and has had an aha! moment. In his blog post, he offers this unsolicited confession:"I believe testing issues today are sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools – oxygen that is needed for a healthy transition to higher standards, improved systems for data, better aligned as
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Weekend Quotables
Atty. Gen. Holder meets with students from St. Louis Community CollegeEric Holder“History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.” -- New Republic Lesley McSpadden (Michael Brown's mother)“We couldn’t even see him. They wouldn’t even let us go see him. They just left him out there, four and a half hours, with no answers. Wouldn’t nobody tell us nothing.” -- N.Y. TimesTy
State Supreme Court to hear case of N.O. teachers fired by Vallas after Katrina
State Supreme Court will hear the case of 7,000 teachers wrongly fired after Hurricane Katrina. "Katrina accomplished in a day ... what Louisiana school reformers couldn't do after years of trying". -- American Enterprise Institute. When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast exactly nine years ago, New Orleans school chief Paul Vallas saw the disaster as an opportunity to carry out his
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Quotables From The Ownership Society
KershnerChris Kershner, vice president of public policy and economic development for the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce“The business community is the consumer of the educational product. Students are the educational product. They are going through the education system so that they can be an attractive product for business to consume and hire as a workforce in the future.” -- Valerie Strauss in Wa
AUG 26
How Greasy Deasy Funneled $1 Billion to Pals at Pearson, Apple
Greasy DeasyHoward Blume at the L.A. Times reports that L.A. Supt. John Deasy (the man from Gates) and his chief deputy "developed a special relationship" with executives from Pearson and Apple, the companies that won a key technology contract, records show, raising new questions about the fairness of competition in a $1-billion effort to provide a computer to every student in the nation