Content tagged: education and inequality
Evidence on the quality of for-profit higher education?
A confluence of forces: a letter requesting my participation in doctoral dissertation research from a student at the University of Phoenix and an increase in for-profit ads endorsed by the Chronicle of Higher Education in my inbox. While we all make mistakes, the attached letter...
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...
Preparing for Tests, Learning…?
As I read Cohen and Moffitt’s, The Ordeal of Equality, I could not help but make some connections to a recent Schools Matter post on high stakes testing. One of my “favorite”...
Thousand Demonstrate Against California Education Cuts
From: substancenews.net: Jack Gerson and other reporters (as indicated) – September 25, 2009 Well over 5,000 students, staff and faculty packed the University of California Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on September 24, 2009, to protest sweeping layoffs, deep cuts...
Labor Beat Chicago Video Exposes Duncan’s Record
From substancenews.net: George N. Schmidt – September 26, 2009 The Chicago labor news organization Labor Beat is still circulating the hit video about Arne Duncan and his work in Chicago at http://blip.tv/file/2428857 As it becomes more and more clear to more and...
Great News: Capitalism Will Provide High Paying Jobs for All, but Only With National Standards!
On July 2, 2009 The American Prospect published an interview with Dane Linn, director of education for the National Governors’ Association (NGA). In the interview, Linn “innovates” the already well-developed ruling class method of disinformation. This...
President Obama’s Speech to the NAACP Centennial Convention
Originally published 01:54 p.m., July 17, 2009, updated 01:55 p.m., July 17, 2009 TEXT: Obama’s speech to NAACP White House transcript The following is a transcript of President Obama’s speech to the NAACP Centennial Convention Thursday night in New York: THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. What an extraordinary night, capping off an extraordinary...
"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)
