Month: March 2015
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Who’s right on unions?: César Chávez or Campbell Brown and Michelle Rhee? The critics of teachers and their organizations come and go. For a while Michelle Rhee was the darling of the anti-union forces. In Michelle Rhee’s greatest hits, she was quoted as saying, “People often say to me the teachers unions are here to stay, that…
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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig will join the national staff of Teach For America as of April 1, 2015. He will serve as Teach For America’s Vice President of Umbilicus Monitoring and Evaluation. I just want to feel young and inexperienced again, Teach For America can help me do that for about two years. You cat…
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What’s the background on Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago runoff? Why are so many Democrats unhappy with a Democrat? In 2013, I wrote about his cozy relationship with billionaires in the post Bloomberg and Rahmbo: Sleight of Hand Artists. The reality of Rahm sponsored school closures in School Closure and Race Infographic: Something fishy going on in Chicago? and Mouth agape:…
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In Defies Measurement, Shannon Puckett expertly weaves together the problematic purposes of testing, Common Core, corporate reform, No Child Left Behind, Teach For America, The Gates Foundation, The Broad Foundation, charter schools, and privatization. The film begins with Chipman middle school and traces the inspiration and impact that the school had on a diverse groups…
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Blaming cultural studies for much of the ills of undergraduate learning continues to be a popular hobby among those who profess to favor great thinkers in the academy. Recently, we did a search for “cultural studies” on the website of the Chronicle of Higher Education, which directs readers immediately to a list of 25 publications.…
Cloaking Inequity 
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