Orientation When I first considered myself a socialist revolutionary in 1970, I was hounded by free marketers’ challenge: “name me one country where socialism works”. These market fundamentalists would then hold up the most strident expectations for socialism: Everyone is exactly equal with no classes. There is an abundance of goods which are conveniently circulated. […]
It is no accident that fewer than three percent of the nation’s roughly 7,300 charter schools are operated by teachers and that 90% of charter schools do not have a teachers union. So much for the narrative that charter schools started nearly 30 years ago to empower teachers. Some states even allow charter schools to […]
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Guest Post by Dr Ravi Sinha The 9th lecture (in Hindi) in the Umang Library popular science series will happen this Sunday, December 13, at 5 PM IST. The series is aimed at creating awareness about science in the Hindi belt of India. Abstract : From … Continue reading From the Electron to the Higgs- The Long Twentieth Century of Particle Physics – :Dr Ravi Sinha →
“Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.” Mahatma Gandhi With Article 21A being introduced in the Constitution, elementary education became a fundamental right to all the children from the age of six to fourteen years. With the Right to Education Act 2009, it became the[Read More...]
21WIRE | Still, all they can do is double-down in a vain attempt to save face and their lucrative careers in power.
La dérive de l'éducation nationale est en marche. Le 8 novembre dernier, Médiapart sortait ses premières révélations concernant les dépenses somptuaires de certaines personnes du syndicat "Avenir Lycéen", proche de la République en Marche. Plus de 20 000 euros d'argent public sur 65 000 de la subvention, dilapidé à l'aide de la carte bleue du syndicat, dans des hôtels et restaurant de luxe, des magasins, des bars. Pour nous parler de ce scandale, nous avons reçu Antton Rouget, (...)
La dérive de l'éducation nationale est en marche. Le 8 novembre dernier, Médiapart sortait ses premières révélations concernant les dépenses somptuaires de certaines personnes du syndicat "Avenir Lycéen", proche de la République en Marche. Plus de 20 000 euros d'argent public sur 65 000 de la subvention, dilapidé à l'aide de la carte bleue du syndicat, dans des hôtels et restaurant de luxe, des magasins, des bars. Pour nous parler de ce scandale, nous avons reçu Antton Rouget, (...)
If you think racial profiling is problematic, just wait until you understand criminal profiling... of school children based on grades plus psychographic and demographic factors. Meddling with school records is apparently OK because it is done by Technocrats who, after all, think that all answers to society's problems can be solved by them.
ORIENTATION Why do political science and neoclassical economics go in one ear and out the other? A human being who has a fully integrated social body understands that economics is about a social system of circulation of goods and services. In other words, provisioning for the population. Politics is the collective process of evaluating and […]
21WIRE | This may be the single biggest institutional failure in modern times.
