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The Vocabulary of Destruction
THE VOCABULARY OF DESTRUCTION That public education is a vital component of a civil and just society is inarguable. The education of children in any society is the means by which social values are...
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A LITTLE HISTORY
A LITTLE HISTORY What bothers me most about the current war against public education is that it is a-historical. It is as if schools suddenly went bad a few months ago or coincidentally with Jeb Bush...
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A New Tower of Babel
THE NEW TOWER OF BABEL ” [H]uman community depends on language” say the authors of the language chapter in the book Deep History (Andrew Shryock and Daniel Lord Smail, Univ. of California Press, 2011)....
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The Tenticles of Profit
PUBLIC EDUCATION AND THE TENTICLES OF PROFIT A new reality is beginning to unfold. This other-reality is inhabited by fabulously wealthy people who want, indeed are compelled, to become even more...
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Occupying The Narrative
OK, folks, today’s assignment will be to explore the influence in your home state by an organization called ALEC, or American Legislative Exchange Council, and what to do about it. Let’s begin with a...
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A Response to Joe Teacher
Joe Teacher’s editorial in the May 5-15 Santa Fe Reporter, “Evaluating The Evaluating” was a plea for reasonableness on the part of those who will be evaluating teachers in the coming school year. The...
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Crossroads – Questions Without Answers
Here are some questions that have been plaguing me for months: Why are people like the Koch boys and their wholly owned politicians on such a rampage to destroy the American social contract? What’s in...
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The Betrayal of New Mexico Public Education
Betrayal is an interesting word with many connotations. Generally the word is taken to mean the violation of some form of contract, trust, or confidence – a breech of faith. In my opinion, the...
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The Is and Isn’tness of Public Education
It Isn’t About Children It’s not about children, people and it’s not about education. It’s about profit. Don’t let anyone, including Arne Duncan, tell you otherwise. The Rupert Murdochs, the Koch boys,...
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It’s A Scam
Over the past several years public education and public school teachers have become the whipping boys for everyone from presidents of the United States to governors, mayors, various political...
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