tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post695804389899800044..comments2024-03-28T11:57:21.902-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: A Pair of Presidential ProclamationsPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-44249962665477745572016-05-06T19:43:59.430-04:002016-05-06T19:43:59.430-04:00As a former inner city district public school teac...As a former inner city district public school teacher, parent, PTA and father of 3 graduates of urban district public schools, I thought both proclamations were well done.Joe Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02807286050245368716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-81208261715863090062016-05-06T16:23:01.733-04:002016-05-06T16:23:01.733-04:00Like all Presidents in their final months in offic...Like all Presidents in their final months in office, Obama is concerned about his legacy. Let me tell you what historians in the future will say: Obama's most enduring achievement was the destruction of the American public school system.<br /><br />Not Obamacare, not the taking out of bin Laden -- beyond all his other accomplishments, Obama made possible, irretrievably, the <br />privatization of American public education. This was the purpose of Common Core. This was the infamous mission of Obama's<br />Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan -- and of his replacement, John King.<br /><br />But a troubling question remains: What if the public school was, and still is, essential to American Democracy? Today, the public school<br />is disappearing. Charter schools rule! What, then, happens to the Democracy we all cherish?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03914502219911396091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-64571795058324835562016-05-06T15:04:29.510-04:002016-05-06T15:04:29.510-04:00Obama administration's approach to education ...Obama administration's approach to education improvement emerged quickly as the Obama administration seized on the "opportunity" of available stimulus funds to push a narrow carrots and sticks strategy. I wrote this in 2010 (http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/06/23/36camins.h29.html) Sadly, they have not learned much since.Arthur Caminshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13170160475770265245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-51674116078066136672016-05-04T07:37:18.753-04:002016-05-04T07:37:18.753-04:00Obama's charter man-crush started in the Comme...Obama's charter man-crush started in the Commercial Club of Chicago. <br />https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/04/chicago-public-schools-charters-closings-emanuel/<br /><br />"Lo, like pedagogical kudzu, the charters came forth: forty-six of them, with names like “Infinity Math, Science, and Technology High School,” “Rickover Naval Academy High School,” “Aspira Charter School,” and “DuSable Leadership Academy of Betty Shabazz International Charter School.” Although, funny thing, rather than resembling the plucky, innovative — “flexible” — startups the rhetoric promised, the schools that flourished looked like factories stamped out by central planning. The skills most rewarded by Chicago’s charter boom became corporate marketing, regulatory capture, and outright graft."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12813056667733621829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-51744081844230651172016-05-03T07:37:52.496-04:002016-05-03T07:37:52.496-04:00Yeah, I can't stand Obama. Some of my liberal...Yeah, I can't stand Obama. Some of my liberal friends like him well enough but I believe he his administration has done irreparable damage to the teaching profession. I also believe he has continued the Democratic tradition, started by Bill Clinton, of not providing any support to the working and middle classes. When it comes to income inequality and workers' rights, the man is nowhere to be found. Labor unrest, no Obama. Two teacher strikes in his hometown, no Obama. Juts keep lurching further to the right, you once-mighty advocates of the working and middle classes, you Democrats. (Yes, Republicans are far worse. They abuse the backbone of America. The Democrats simply abandon it.)lateralushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870256979297807637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-53852375413166638752016-05-02T20:51:30.207-04:002016-05-02T20:51:30.207-04:00We are all so much stronger for putting up with hi...We are all so much stronger for putting up with his bs policies and teaching anyway, he has strengthened us greatly. If I were any stronger I would just break.....Old Teacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05906965809756360801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-48954698347485407022016-05-02T17:39:46.573-04:002016-05-02T17:39:46.573-04:00he has tried to "build and strengthen the tea...he has tried to "build and strengthen the teaching profession." ?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04996620109892561477noreply@blogger.com