http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/11/school-choice-no-panacea-in-new-orleans Comments On: School choice no panacea in New Orleans by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
MoMoney rules.
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:12:51 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer…

A sample:

"Where do I begin? I spent the last thirty minutes listening to a group of arrogant and condescending noneducators disrespect my colleagues and profession. I listened to a group of disingenuous people whose own self-interests guide their policies rather than the interests of children. I listened to a cabal of people who sit on national education committees that will have a profound impact on classroom teaching practices. And I heard nothing of value. “I’m thinking about the current health-care debate,” I said. “And I am wondering if I will be asked to sit on a national committee charged with the task of creating a core curriculum of medical procedures to be used in hospital emergency rooms.”

“I realize that most people would think I am unqualified to sit on such a committee because I am not a doctor, I have never worked in an emergency room, and I have never treated a single patient. So what? Today I have listened to people who are not teachers, have never worked in a classroom, and have never taught a single student tell me how to teach.”

Are the Waltons, Gates, Bushes, etal listening and reading? Probably not.
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:33:32 -0600 Arkansas Times
So, you are saying that we need more choices?
Posted by Doc]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:13:58 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Salieri]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:52:31 -0600 Arkansas Times
1) Conservatives' desire to limit higher "quality" education to those whose already existing economic status and class backgrounds can "afford" it (i.e., acceptable members of the ruling classes and elites who can be expected to conform in order to maintain their and their families' status).

2) Conservatives' desire to maintain a large workforce of relatively uneducated and unskilled non-union laborers whose limited options restrict them to occupational compliance for whatever wages are dictated by the ruling class.

3) Conservatives' mission to prevent critical thinking and questioning which potentially leads to increasingly widespread rejection of organized "revealed" religion in favor of objective scientific facts, thus depriving the ruling classes of their greatest mass-manipulation tools--Artificial Religious Guilt, Fear of God and Eternal Damnation.

Result? The steady onslaught against uncontrolled universal "public" education and the equally steady erosion of America's educational ranking.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:44:25 -0600 Arkansas Times