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I was invited by Kevin Zeese to contribute something to Popular Resistance a while back, to contribute a call for an action in response to current education reform policies, including but not limited to, any piece of fecal detritus spewed by Betsy Devos and company. I struggled to formulate a response to that request mostlyContinue reading “Demand … or Be Damned”

Dear New York Times, I know that there’s a greater chance of me winning the lottery than there is in you actually publishing what I have to say in an Op Ed. So let’s pretend for a moment this response is actually IN the New York Times and not my little blog, and that millionsContinue reading “My Response to the New York Times’ Google Article: What They left Out. A Lot!”

Power Point link here. Click to download and save: Charter Schools forEdualch  

A passage from Tipu’s Tiger, a writing collective*: “The concept of allyship has been instrumental in imposing more moderate power brokers and elite protest managers on decentralized movements in an attempt to rein in disruptive protest. Any social movement in recent memory that has attempted to break the mold of permitted rallies and marches, andContinue reading “Compromise or Corporatize?”

  The privatizers are busy at work. Unless you live under a rock (a tempting thought lately…) you probably feel like I do every time you turn on the news; the sensation of riding the Tilt a Whirl while taking ‘shrooms. It’s exhausting at best, and terrifying at worst; trying to untangle what is happeningContinue reading “A View of the Long Game: Where Art Thou Public Education?”

A re-posting from https://billayers.org/2017/01/22/get-woke-white-people/ GET WOKE, White People! The world-wide outpouring of rage immediately following the inauguration of Donald Trump was dazzling and heartening. Women in the lead, connections and intersectionality in the air, humor, art, determination, solidarity—the people rising, the popular opposition on display. I loved so many signs waving in the streets of Washington: “FightContinue reading “Get Woke, White People! – By Bill Ayers”

In honor of the announcement by Merriam Webster Dictionary that “surreal” was the word of 2016 I am re-posting a older piece I wrote for United Opt Out almost one year ago. Now… more relevant than ever. Annual standardized testing has given way to Competency Based online delivery systems, all…the…time. Race to the Top hasContinue reading “Because 2016 was Surreal, So What’s Next?”

This post has migrated. Please visit Busted Pencils for this and any future blog posts:http://bustedpencils.com/2016/08/state-resistance-movement-murder-suicide-need-claim-third-space-morna- In May of 2016 I officially resigned as an administrator for United Opt Out a group I help create in 2011 along with Peggy Robertson, Tim Slekar, Ceresta Smith, Shaun Johnson, and Laurie Murphy. Since then, Shaun and Laurie rolledContinue reading “On the State of the Resistance Movement: Between Murder and Suicide and the Need to Claim a Third Space”

“Career and College Ready?” (image link) Pearson, of course, was ahead of the pack as usual… developing a school- to -labor pipeline that suites the corporate masters.  As this blog explains, Competency Based Education becomes the framework for “badges” instead of credit hours and prepares students for career and college which is code for theContinue reading “CBE and ALEC Preparing Students for the Gig Economy”