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chervilant
chervilant's Journal
chervilant's Journal
November 28, 2015
May we please discuss this issue without personal attacks? I sincerely want to know if this report has legs.
How Hillary Ruined Her Legacy As Secretary of State
May we please discuss this issue without personal attacks? I sincerely want to know if this report has legs.
November 12, 2015
If youve ever lived with small children then you know this feeling: You have just cleaned the house. All clutter is put way. Table tops and floors have no dirt or food. Clothes are folded. And then, they come home. Next thing you know theres a trail of chocolate chips on the floor from the refrigerator into the TV room. The cabinets and drawers are vomiting out their contents; pencils, rubber bands, clothing, snacks, scissors. Theres mud and leaves all over the floor . And you know that within a short period of time youll have to pick everything up all over again. Now, Ive come to terms with this process. It comes with the territory. Its never ending. At least until they move out.
But, now imagine having this feeling as an educator as it pertains to education policies. It appears apparent to anyone who has worked in education for more than a few years that what we have before us is a never-ending avalanche of policies. Further, dedicated and committed teachers try their best to follow instructions. They try to follow the latest round of to-do lists hurled upon them from above by experts and policy makers.
But theres a catch.
We are naïve in believing that there will ever be an end to the policy demands, or that, once we finally get a grasp on the latest thing and have command of it, that we can get ever get caught up. Its an illusion (a deliberate one at that) that this next thing, whatever it is, will be the solution to our education woes. We are being sold an endless slew of promises that all we need to do is clean house and the problems will be solved. But we must do our part right?
However, the house of education, beset by a neoliberal agenda is designed to perpetually re-create new messes for us to clean up. What does this mean? (A)t the heart of neoliberal ideology is the appreciation of the role of market in defining and ensuring (supposed) human well-being, where the state is more of a facilitator providing institutional supports in the form of strong private property right, free markets, and free trade (Harvey, 2005, p. 2).
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This is an important, irrefutable article. I hope you will read every word.
Power, Labor, and Compliance in Education Reform: Why We Must Refuse
If youve ever lived with small children then you know this feeling: You have just cleaned the house. All clutter is put way. Table tops and floors have no dirt or food. Clothes are folded. And then, they come home. Next thing you know theres a trail of chocolate chips on the floor from the refrigerator into the TV room. The cabinets and drawers are vomiting out their contents; pencils, rubber bands, clothing, snacks, scissors. Theres mud and leaves all over the floor . And you know that within a short period of time youll have to pick everything up all over again. Now, Ive come to terms with this process. It comes with the territory. Its never ending. At least until they move out.
But, now imagine having this feeling as an educator as it pertains to education policies. It appears apparent to anyone who has worked in education for more than a few years that what we have before us is a never-ending avalanche of policies. Further, dedicated and committed teachers try their best to follow instructions. They try to follow the latest round of to-do lists hurled upon them from above by experts and policy makers.
But theres a catch.
We are naïve in believing that there will ever be an end to the policy demands, or that, once we finally get a grasp on the latest thing and have command of it, that we can get ever get caught up. Its an illusion (a deliberate one at that) that this next thing, whatever it is, will be the solution to our education woes. We are being sold an endless slew of promises that all we need to do is clean house and the problems will be solved. But we must do our part right?
However, the house of education, beset by a neoliberal agenda is designed to perpetually re-create new messes for us to clean up. What does this mean? (A)t the heart of neoliberal ideology is the appreciation of the role of market in defining and ensuring (supposed) human well-being, where the state is more of a facilitator providing institutional supports in the form of strong private property right, free markets, and free trade (Harvey, 2005, p. 2).
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This is an important, irrefutable article. I hope you will read every word.
November 10, 2015
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A Million Cancer Deaths...
The genotoxic Uranium-238 residues left behind will likely cause pain, suffering, birth defects, miscarriages and premature deaths for countless generations to come.
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