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Holes in Foundation Shield of Education Funding
Leather knight shield with holes, November 2, 2011. (http://paulssupplies.com) As an educator and someone who has worked in the nonprofit world on education reform issues for slightly less than half of...
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“It Is Done”– 15 Years Later
Hands of God & Adam, fingers about to touch, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican, Michelangelo, 1508-1512 (via Wikipedia). In public domain. The next twenty-four hours will mark a decade and a half...
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College Isn’t For Everyone
Sterling Memorial Library (cropped), Yale University, New Haven, CT, September 3, 2008. (Ragesoss via Wikipedia). Permission granted via licenses with GFDL and Creative Commons cc-by-sa-2.5. In May...
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The Wussification of Grading
Grades Collage, January 24, 2010. (http://hopkins.typepad.com). Montgomery County Public Schools opened its doors to students for the start of the 2012-13 school year on Monday, August 27. With the...
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Anthony Cody, Gates Foundation in Ed Reform Debate
The below is my response to Irvin Scott and Stacey Childress’ (of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) “Response to Anthony Cody: The Role of the Marketplace in Education.” Given their corporatist,...
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edX and Ex-lax (& Higher Education’s Future)
Ex-lax Chocolated Laxative, September 26, 2012. (http://overstockdrugstore.com). Last May, Harvard and MIT announced a $60 million partnership that would provide free online courses to 600,000 students...
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My Take On K-12 & Higher Education & Corporatism
Pink Floyd–The Wall (1982), February 16, 2012. (http://free-education.info). Qualifies as fair use under US Copyright laws – low res and related to blog subject. We often treat K-12 education and...
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Common Core Advocacy As A Job Requirement?
The James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy (aka, The Hunt Institute), building and logo, 1000 Park Forty Plaza, Durham, NC, January 16, 2014....
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Unbearable Being Of Whiteness
White supremacist and deadbeat grazing fee payer Cliven Bundy at his ranch, Bunkerville, Nevada, April 11, 2014. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters via http://www.newsweek.com). There have been few things more...
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Bill Cobsy, The Nexus of Father Figure and Power Corruption
Jell-O Pudding Pops ad with Bill Cosby, circa 1983, November 20, 2014. (http://pinterest.com). In the aftermath of my Mom’s second divorce in September ’89, she would sometimes engage me in...
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My Mom’s Migration Story, 50 Years Later
I would be a pretty terrible son and historian to not discuss the fact that this July and August marks fifty years since my mother moved to New York from little ol’ Bradley, Arkansas. For those who...
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Mrs. Bryant and the Beginning of Donald 1.5
A bright blue sky, just before the long storm, February 19, 2011. (http://www.photos-public-domain.com). In public domain. We’ve reached the end of yet another school year, number 32 for me overall,...
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