What is an edujob? An edujob is a fancy way that some supposed reformers like to refer to teachers. It sounds like these are jobs that add nothing to a school and simply are adults getting in the way of a child’s education—what’s sad is that is exactly how many of these so-called reformers feel [...]
Archive for the ‘education reform’ category
Supposed Education Reformers Don’t Do Irony
April 20, 2010Following the #RTTT channel on Twitter, I’ve noticed that the neo-liberal education reformers who post on there seem terribly deficient in their ability to notice irony. Maybe that’s why so many people who seem intent on destroying the public education system as we know it and exacerbating the differences between the haves and have nots [...]
Honored by Obama–Silenced by the Chicago Board of Education
February 25, 2010Yesterday, I completed my transformation from observer to activist when I spoke at the Chicago Board of Education meeting where they cast a cowardly vote to close or overhaul six Chicago Public Schools. The day began at 4AM. I won’t pretend to be a modern day Joe Hill–part of the reason I was up early [...]
Judgment at Central Falls Part 3
February 20, 2010[Continued from Part 2] It was a wet Rhode Island Monday April 28, 2008 when Maida Lopez entered Central Falls High School. There were already over 40 parents in a chaotic jumble in the main office trying to find their children so they could bring them home from school for the day. The city of [...]
The Myth of Freedom Writers
February 15, 2010From time to time, I’ll look at the links that Word Press puts at the bottom of my articles. I do this because I hope to see what other bloggers are saying on similar topics. A post I did on Guggenheim Elementary took me to this little nugget today, “In order to achieve quality education, [...]
Education Reform and the Status Quo
February 8, 2010“Education is the most important problem facing the United States today” “Only the massive upgrading of the scholastic standards of our schools will guarantee the future prosperity and freedom of the Republic.” “The chronic shortage of good scientists, engineers, and other professionals which plagues us today is the result of time wasted in public schools.” [...]
Goals Gone Wild
January 15, 2010I’ve often said that the moment you try to run schools like a business you succeed only in running it like the worst type of top down autocratic business where the big bosses make edicts that have nothing to do with the job reality of their work force. In other words, think of Chrysler in [...]
Negotiations Aren’t a Popularity Contest
January 7, 2010As the Race Off a Cliff continues, I’m shocked by some of what I see from teachers union officials. An article in the News-Press out of Fort Myers Florida entitled Lee County Teachers Union Boss Has Dilemma caught my eye today. The story was about Mark Castellano who is the head of the Lee County’s [...]
Fighting Privatization
January 4, 2010I’ve made a resolution to do a better job keeping this blog updated this year. The assault on education in this country and in my own city of Chicago is too pressing not to be vocal about what’s going on. I’ve mentioned before that I am a member of CORE (The Caucus of Rank and [...]
Teach Locally, but Think Nationally
December 9, 2009I’ve been getting a lot of traffic from Washington, DC lately on both of my blogs because of the writing that I’ve done on Michelle Rhee. To my mind, Washington is definitely ground zero in the battle to privatize our schools. What Michelle Rhee has done with her summary firings in our nation’s capital should [...]
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