“Who are you with?” the kid asked as I knelt over the camcorder trying to get the damn thing to stream.
“I’m with myself. I blog.”
“What do you blog about?”
I had to give that one some thought: “About the privatization of education.”
“You’re against it?”
Stupid motherfucking camera! I replugged the [...]
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This morning I read a post that said the Occupy movement is dead. It dismissed the movement as a mistake, a misunderstanding, an acid trip. No movement which rejects proper sanitation, it said, should be taken seriously.
The last time I visited Occupy LA, there was a powerful smell of shit. A [...]
Read this great article about the impact of homelessness on education. I share my comment below:
This is quite a beautifully written article, Scott, about a vitally important topic. For obvious reasons, I sympathize with the kids. As a special ed teacher myself, I have seen what negative impact homelessness [...]
Love this grab from my Robert Reich vid. A more gracious, powerful voice I have never heard. (Thanks to Lily for the great–pink!–sign.)
Hey, check out this passage from Winner-Take-All Politics by Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker. It helps explain how the rich–both liberal and conservative–have jacked the public education agenda, blaming kids and teachers instead of poverty for the ills of our schools. It is time that progressives to take [...]
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