Mike Klonsky's Blog: Education on the brink, but missing from Biden/Harris speeches

Mike Klonsky's Blog: Education on the brink, but missing from Biden/Harris speeches

Education on the brink, but missing from Biden/Harris speeches

The topic of education was, unfortunately, MIA from the main convention speeches. It barely came up in either the Kamala Harris or Joe Biden speech. This at a time when public ed has been pushed to the brink, not only by the pandemic but by the current administration's response to it and should be a central issue in the campaign.

I'm not sure where party platforms go after elections, but the draft Party Platform does have some good stuff in it. There doesn't seem to be any big changes in it from the 2016 Platform, but it's still a hell of a lot better than the Republicans'. Plus the idea of sending Betsy DeVos packing has my heart aflutter.

From the Platform...

As Democrats, we believe that education is a critical public good—not a commodity—and that it is the government’s responsibility to ensure that every child, everywhere, is able to receive a world-class education that enables them to lead meaningful lives, no matter their race, ZIP code, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or household income.

On the pandemic...

The emergency conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic have vividly demonstrated to parents, students, and educators across the country that there is no sustainable, long-term substitute for high-quality, in-classroom learning. Significant gaps in access to technology, including lack of access to high-speed CONTINUE READING: Mike Klonsky's Blog: Education on the brink, but missing from Biden/Harris speeches

Ugh!! It’s All [expletive deleted] Politics!! Why Does Politics Have Such a Negative Reputation? | Ed In The Apple

Ugh!! It’s All [expletive deleted] Politics!!  Why Does Politics Have Such a Negative Reputation? | Ed In The Apple

Ugh!! It’s All [expletive deleted] Politics!!  Why Does Politics Have Such a Negative Reputation?

We live in an era in which news, pseudo-news, fake news, opinion are intertwined; Facebook, Twitter, podcasts and websites: who can we believe?  The news cycle never ends, and, we’re never sure what is “news” and what’s campaign rhetoric. We do know that “sex, scandal and violence” garner the most “hits;” sadly, we seem to get the “news” we want!

A president can tweet, dissemble, insult, in past it was the supporters of the president. now, it s everyone.

Politics has always been a rough and tumble “sport.”

The concept of politics has its origins in Athens.  Aristotle, in “Politics,”

 … calls a city (polis), or as he likes to call it, a “political association;” cities are designed and created with the purpose of achieving happiness  …  all human actions have a positive intention. The highest form of community is the polis, standing ahead of other political associations such as the household and village. Aristotle … believes the public life is far more virtuous than the private and because people by nature are “political animals” and goes on to further say that people by nature are worse and more savage than animals.

 Our founding fathers, the elites of our nation, were well-read, from the Greeks to the bible, to Hobbes and Locke; a compendium of scholarly works.

One of the prime purposes of “politics,” the polis, was to restrain the savage side CONTINUE READING: Ugh!! It’s All [expletive deleted] Politics!!  Why Does Politics Have Such a Negative Reputation? | Ed In The Apple

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The latest news and resources in education since 2007

 

 

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