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Peter Schmidt: Videos ‘Ripped’ From Online-Course Footage Bring Threats to Instructors
Today the Chronicle of Higher Education posted this story on their website: The University of Missouri system has been besieged with angry letters and phone calls, and top officials at its St. Louis campus have asked an adjunct faculty member...
Bruce Baker: Smart Guy (Gates) makes my list of “Dumbest Stuff I’ve Ever Read!”
Bill Gates (clearly a very smart guy) has just topped my list of Dumbest Stuff I’ve Ever Read for the first few months of 2011. He did it with this post in the Huffington Post and with his talk to State Governors (in which he also naively...
Stephen Sawchuk: States Aim to Curb Collective Bargaining
In this February 9 article, Sawchuck writes: First it was changes to pay, then evaluation systems, and then tenure laws. Now, lawmakers in several states are challenging collective bargaining, the foundation of teacher unionism. In Idaho and Indiana,...
Anthony Cody: Teachers Beware — They are Coming for Our Pensions
From Teacher Blogs, Living in Dialogue On Wednesday, listening to Talk of the Nation...
Inside Higher Ed: For-Profit Colleges Open Another Front
The January 24, 2011 edition of Inside Higher Ed reported that after months of fighting the Obama administration’s efforts to regulate the for-profit sector, on Friday, “The Association of Private Sector Colleges...
Detroit Free Press: MEAP may be replaced by national online test
Following the Common Core Standards Blitzkrieg, spurred on by ARRA funds used to bribe states into compliance with the monopoly agenda of Gates et al, national testing is here. “Michigan’s MEAP test could undergo a radical change...
Alan Singer: Charter Schools Don’t Do Miracles
Of course, I don’t believe in mircales, and so, this story is not a surprise. But what is bubbling underneath the rhetoric of the Obama/Duncan education reform agenda is more and more evidence of the dark side of so-called innovation. This “dark side” has grave implications for an education that serve the public good. And it is clear...
Clifford Adelman’s “White Noise of Accountability”
On June 24, Clifford Adelman’s, “White Noise of Accountability” was published in Inside Higher Ed. This piece offers a good example of countering disinformation in thinking about education. Some highlights include: “Accountability,” a term that has been with...
More Than Half of Students Tested Have Poisoning History
More than half of the students tested in Detroit Public Schools have a history of lead poisoning, which affects brain function for life, according to data compiled by city health and education officials. The data also show, for the first time in Detroit, a link between higher lead levels and poor academic performance. About 60% of DPS students who performed...
Charter Schools/Market Violence/Disruptive Innovation: Student Beating, Paying the Rich, and the Irrelevance of Facts
From Jim Horn. “Are you, like the President, a fan of the “No Excuses” charter schools for the children of the poor, the ones with no oversight except for what student camera phones can provide? Then you may enjoy Jamie’s...
"The Political Economy of Educational Restructuring: On the Origin of Performance Pay and Obama’s “Blueprint” for Education," in The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education Can Hope Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism? (Information Age Publishing)
