Month: March 2014

• Charter Op-Ed Misrepresents (Big Tree): My Response That They Won’t Print (Small Axe)

  5–7 minutes

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  March 5, 2014

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  Charter Schools

  If you are the big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down, to cut you down! Bob Marley I submitted an Op-Ed two weeks ago to the San Antonio Express News (SAEN) and they have refused to print it. The SAEN has not given the cold shoulder to corporate charter proponents. They printed…

  

• Pile of Old Books vs. Citizens as Critical Participants in the Great Education Debates

  5–8 minutes

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  March 2, 2014

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  Wisdom

  For a scholar, hiding research behind journal pay walls and subscriptions is safety. As comfortable and warm as cuddling up with a blanket and a book in front a fireplace on a cool fall evening. Should faculty only focus on this traditional notion of scholarly activity in 2014? In 2006, I came to the University…