The Online Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “outlaw” as: to remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement to deprive of the benefit and protection of law a lawless person or a fugitive from the law an animal (such as a horse) that is wild and unmanageable Over the years much has been written about the chronic absence of […]
Education and other public services and social programs have been under attack by major owners of capital and “free market” ideologues for several decades. To be sure, the privatization of all spheres and sectors continues at a brisk rate at home and abroad. Public-private “partnerships” and other pay-the-rich schemes carried out under the veneer of […]
(You can read this post below or listen above — or both!) My family moved to a slightly “better” area of our neighborhood shortly before I turned 15. There were many reasons for this relocation but here’s one factor my mother clearly articulated: “If we stay here, I’m afraid you’ll end up dead or in […]
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I do ground-truthing from a very folksy and small-townish perspective. I have found myself “stuck” here on the Central Oregon Coast, really, where my own destiny seems etched in the crumbling sandstone holding up the tourist-laden Highway 101. I’ve exhausted the labor market here, since the school district has banned me as a substitute teacher […]
The note on Radio National’s Background Briefing on the morning of July 31 was sombre. A student, who did not divulge his real name (he is professionally pseudonymised as Ramesh), talks about services that aid him in his study. Aid is less accurate than do – given that he is working gruelling night shifts in […]
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I just read about a recent survey conducted with school teachers that indicates that “nearly half are contemplating transferring schools or quitting altogether due to their concerns about safety.” These safety concerns are, of course, entirely based on the specter of school shootings. FYI: There are roughly 77 million students enrolled in schools in the U.S. There […]
When it comes to corporate power and control over their lives, now and into the future, today’s college students are perilously dormant. When it comes to putting pressure on Congress to counter the various dictates of corporatism, there is little activity other than some stalwarts contacting their lawmakers on climate violence. Much of campus activity […]
For some time now, public school superintendents in Pennsylvania, as well as the governor of that state and many others, have been striving to restrict the charter school money grab that has been allowed to run amok in that state for years. Cyber charter schools in particular, notorious for consistently abysmal academic results and for […]
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The debate [sic] related to student loan forgiveness is almost always based on media lies and carved-in-stone ideological identities. For example, if you see yourself as left or liberal, you salivate each time Bernie Sanders evokes the specter of 100 percent forgiveness. Conservatives reflexively grumble about “big government” and/or “work ethic” without doing any real […]
