Ash Donaldson joins Henrik to talk about his book "Blut and Boden, a Fairy Tale For Children of European Decent."
Ash Donaldson is a veteran of the war against ISIS - the Muslim group, that is, not the goddess. A refugee from academia, he lives in exile in the upper Midwest. His work can be read in the pages of Europa Sun and at Counter-Currents.
A video version of this show is available here.
One of the ways that even those who skillfully expose and critique endless charter school problems still miss the mark and (un)wittingly support the destruction of public education through more school privatization schemes is by obsessing over how to improve disturbingly low levels of transparency and accountability in the charter school sector, instead of demanding that no public funds or assets be funneled to charter schools in the first place.
I was delighted to write this short piece for Wired UK, and hope you find it useful
“The movement towards personalisation is already advancing in medicine. We must move quickly in that direction in education, too”
James Cook University took 28 separate actions against Professor Ridd. Each of them, including his termination, has been declared unlawful.
With a straight face, many millionaires, some media outlets, and Governor Andrew Cuomo are once again righteously demanding an increase in the number of privately-run but publicly-funded charter schools permitted in the State, specifically in New York City where these deregulated schools have run amuck.
Charter school supporters never tire of promoting the consumerist free market notion of “choice.” They have always seen society as a dog-eat-dog world in which parents and students are consumers who fend-for-themselves as they shop for a school that may or may not accept them. In this antisocial view, schools are considered commodities, just like any other commodity in the “free market.” Education is not viewed as a basic, socially-organized human responsibility and right.
The two climate crises. I enjoyed this conversation with @spodek on Education, Leadership and the Environment. Hope you do.
Please listen to the interview here
“As a professor of leadership, host of this podcast, and constant student of acting by my environmental values, I live and work in the intersection of leadership, education, and the environment.
Chaos, anarchy, and violence are inherent features of the free market.1 Instability, uncertainty, disequilibrium, unevenness, imbalance, volatility, turmoil, impulsiveness, alienation, greed, anxiety, jealousy, risk, irrational behavior, and “animal spirits” are fellow-travelers of advanced commodity production and exchange, especially in the final and highest stage of capitalism.
This is a guest post by MANINDRA AGRAWAL This is the story of a young man who made it to the premier institution of IIT Kanpur against heavy odds, but was then let down by the system and people at the institute. Yet, he showed exemplary courage and stood up for his rights firmly but … Continue reading The Saderla story – courage in the face of violent prejudice: Manindra Agrawal →
(CD) – Public Citizen sued Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday for allegedly blocking access to the consumer group’s website on her department’s guest Wi-Fi and internal networks. “This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment,” Public Citizen president Robert Weissman wrote in an email to supporters. “Users attempting to access Public Citizen’s website though the department’s guest […]
