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Back several decades ago the food industry discovered something called “fast food” and it exploded on the American landscape as a vehicle for providing food fast in economically savvy ways that would bring food cheaply and efficiently to the “unwashed masses” (meant sarcastically) in every corner of the globe.  Fast forward a couple of decades.Continue reading “Fast Food Education Reviewing the Facts about Education Reform”

Move over ALEC, there’s a bigger fish being fried in the world of education reform by a secretive international group called Bilderberg. Many of my readers may already be acquainted with Bilderberg. They’re not new.  It’s an annual, highly secretive, informal meeting of the world’s ruling elite and world leaders in governance, royalty, defense, agriculture,Continue reading “Yikes! Even ALEC has a Big Brother”

School is almost here! it’s easy in the fray of education reform, and the uphill battle against it, to forget sometimes the most powerful solution, is the simplest.  We create petitions, write blogs, publicize research, hold meetings, contact state representatives….the list goes on.  BUT-As they say in an airplane as you’re taking off, the nearestContinue reading “The Nearest Exit May be Behind You”

Today I experienced what might be defined as the highlight of my twenty year professional education career.  I met Maxine Greene; writer, philosopher and education activist extraordinaire.  She is as brilliant, warm, and engaging as anyone might imagine.  I was ushered into this personal introduction by Nick Sousanis; artist and scholar-an equally brilliant, warm andContinue reading “ESCAPE FROM FLATNESS”

(note: Links in this post are not not embedded right now because my blog site keeps erasing my post every time I try to make a link. Hmmmm…weird, huh?) Can’t upload pics either…. The thing about fires (and I don’t mean the ones in a fireplace or Bar-B-Q pit), is that no one is everContinue reading “Light a spark. Fan a flame. The Revolution is heating up.”

“I can easily picture the worst, because the worst can easily happen.” EUGENE IONESCO, Rhinoceros    BEWARE OF THE RHINOCEROS-THEY ARE EVERYWHERE I can also easily imagine hopeful change, because I still posses my imaginative capacities.  Without them we are dead in the water. In the words of Chris Hedges, “Artists, writers, poets, activists, journalists,Continue reading “IMAGINING AND PRACTICING SOLIDARITY THROUGH CREATIVE MEANS”

This week’s blog includes a personal true story intended as an allegory. I hope my friends and readers, fellows in arms in the fight against corporate reform, will garner some helpful meaning from it. But in the words of song writer Anna Nalick: 2 AM and I’m still awake, writing a song If I getContinue reading “When People Seem Extreme”

Published by “At the Chalk Face” Resolution: I will Dismantle Corporate Education Reform.