Infaming the Public, Part II: Collective Amnesia and the Hypnotic Myth of the...
Hypnosis — “the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction.” Kevin Moore,...
View ArticlePublic Forum on High Stakes Testing and the Need to Rethink Reform
Opinion polls and experience suggest that most people have been kept in the dark about how and why public education is being radically restructured, and in particular, they have been ill-informed about...
View ArticleGagging Teachers, Selling Student Data: Test Secrecy and Privacy Rights Under...
What most people don’t know is that with the adoption of the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), the New York State Education Department (NYSED) has instituted a provision to limit the...
View ArticleInfaming the Public, Part IV: Public Self-Consciousness and Assessment for...
In Parts I-III, I outlined the dangers and significance of the attacks on public education and in particular the anti-public character of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.I outlined a process...
View ArticleNews Analysis: Public Agency Against the Common Core Testing Regime
Over the past several weeks, a growing array of reports regarding the opposition to the Common Core and high stakes testing have appeared. Recently, Buffalo’s WIVB did this report, which is one of the...
View ArticleWho Does John King Report To?
A recent article in the Times Union reported that New York Commissioner of Education John King is working to mobilize “business leaders” to counter the growing public opposition to the Common Core...
View ArticleWhat is the Significance of Issuing a Death Penalty to a Public Institution?
During a speech in Lockport, NY, Governor Cuomo issued a “death penalty for failing schools,” targeting in particular the City of Buffalo. Concretely, the death sentence includes a state takeover of...
View ArticleEducation for the Public Good: Audio of the Public Good Radio Show, October...
On October 1, 2013, I was interviewed by Sam Magavern, from the Partnership for Public Good (PPG) in preparation for the forum on high stakes testing at Kleinhans that took place on October 2. The...
View ArticleGoverning Outside the Public Sphere? Here’s Another Gates Funded Anti-Public...
Bill Gates and venture philanthropy in general have been in the news lately[1] and I don’t believe the attention has been all that welcome in those circles. There is a lot of evidence these “disruptive...
View ArticleA New Public for a New Public Education is Emerging
Tomorrow afternoon, students, teachers, parents and community activists, moved by their collective conscience, and as agents in a historically significant battle for democracy, will converge at...
View ArticleThe Significance of Receivership
As new law granting executive powers to the Commissioner of Education is used to seize control of more than two dozen Buffalo Public Schools — a law that appears to be in violation of the democratic...
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