It’s easy to pay lip service to education. Show me a politician who doesn’t have an education…
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Photo credit: Jackson Square, Dec. 1995 or 1996. All rights reserved © Patrick J. Cain. Photo used…
Photo credit: D. Sharon Pruitt (edited by B. Hate) I’ve taught college for nearly 30 years. I…
from 2006-2007, deep within the trenches ___ Photo credit: Sudhamshu 1. Do not give me Katrina-sized attitude…
Photo credit: csessums Near the end of my sixth and last semester of law school, after the…
Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself? Arlo Guthrie, “Alice’s Restaurant” One of the jobs I have on campus…
A recent public opinion poll shows that most adults feel that there were three important gaps in…
Photo credit: Juli From the Tawny, Scrawny Lion to the Bridge to Terabithia, You think you know…
Photograph: Steve Back/Barcroft Media Education howlers are stupid things important people have said about education and below…
The myth of the self-made man become hero-savior to save the black and brown children from their unionized teachers hides a whiff of white man’s burden. And economic exploitation. Millions of dollars of federal and state funds every year. Not enough supervision at any level. All fed by the myth that “business” has and can solve all problems and has the perfect model for all professions, industries, cultural institutions, etc. No matter how often you say it or how far you spread your proteges, it’s still not true.
Hi, folks: Greg Michie, one of my colleagues on the front lines of the Teachers’ Strike up in…
At the risk of offending my employers and colleagues I cannot wrap my mind around online teaching….
Democracy, Davis concluded, was at odds with effective population control and stability in Asia; the only political system for the continent’s mushrooming megacities was a “strong government that stands in contrast to the populace in skill as well as power…