Tag Archives: education
Pedagogy of the Oppressor
This ed-school bestseller is a utopian political tract calling for the overthrow of capitalist hegemony and the creation of classless societies. Teachers who adopt its pernicious ideas risk harming their students—and ironically, their most disadvantaged students will suffer the most. Continue reading
The Crisis and Politics of Higher Education
The Higher Education Act is the very model of bureaucratic legislation: top down, complex, requiring interpretation of endless details by everyone concerned, and placing power over local things in remote beings whose very job titles are indecipherable, and who, also, have almost no direct contact with the actual things being accomplished. Continue reading
One Party Classroom
Behind every academic radical, the authors argue, you’re likely to find a department offering eager support. Continue reading
KIPP vs. the Teachers' Unions
Unsatisfied with the stranglehold they have on the nation’s regular public schools, teachers’ unions have long sought to gain access to charter schools, most of which operate free of the workplace restrictions (and job protections) that the unions have won for their members. Now a battle is underway in New York City, where a national symbol of the charter school movement is struggling to keep unionization at bay. Continue reading
Obama's Hypocrisy
Perhaps hard-bitten cynics aren’t surprised by the quiet ruthlessness with which this administration has deep-sixed a popular D.C. school voucher program. But for everyone else–or, rather, everyone else not in bed with teachers’ unions–its conduct has to come as a total shock. Continue reading
Why So Shy With The Hatchet?
ABC reports, “The Los Angeles Board of Education voted Tuesday to lay off as many as 5,400 teachers and support personnel for the upcoming school year” in order to help close “a roughly $718 million deficit.”
Ok, that’s a start. But the number of public school employees in the US has doubled since 1970, while the number of students has increased by just 9 percent. Continue reading
