Category: Wisdom
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This interactive lecture explores the present school reform discourse and education policy landscape. Dr. Vasquez Heilig discusses what is prompting educators, students, parents, and citizens alike to question the ways in which we hold public schools accountable for student learning and performance. NKU provides this context: Too many of today’s students, particularly those in impoverished…
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Today on the B.U.S. Thursday program LIVE on We Act Radio Education Town Hall we discussed the bare inequality facing US children, NPE’s recent national report card which is sparking national discussion and John King’s Secretary of Education confirmation hearing. B= Badass Teachers U= United Opt Out S= Save our Schools The Education Town Hall with Thomas Byrd is the premiere…
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Lot’s of controversy today about @HillaryClinton & @GoldmanSachs. Incidentally, Teach For America (TFA) and Goldman Sachs have had a longstanding and very fruitful relationship. @TeachForAmerica has been allied with Goldman Sachs in several ways. Who is Goldman Sachs? From Wikipedia: The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational investment banking firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management,…
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While many new outlets and blogs had articles prepared to run on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, I usually prefer to take in the experience and then write about it the next day (i.e. one of my personal favorite Cloaking Inequity MLK day posts is Honoring MLK: Remembered For the Extremist That He Was) My day began…
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Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: One thing (but not the only thing) I have learned about doing public work as an academic is that I am often positioned as the responder, and thus criticizing someone else’s claim. The result is that many are quick to refute my criticism as just that—so much griping—and…
Cloaking Inequity 
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