A Writer’s Blog

  • Alan Singer: Why Does Marco Rubio Sneer at Higher Education?

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Alan Singer, professor at Hofstra University, has discerned a disturbing pattern in Republican candidate Marco Rubio’s public comments: he is contemptuous of higher education. ? In fact, Singer says that Rubio has declared war on higher education. ? He writes: ? According to Senator Rubio, liberal arts colleges… Read more

  • John Lennon & Rosie and The Originals – Angel Baby

    Originally posted on The Immortal Jukebox: ‘[Angel Baby] … This is by a 15 year old girl from National City California named Rosie. This is going to be a hit Guys and Gals’ – DJ Alan Freed on K-Day Radio, November 1960. ‘This here is one of my all time favourite songs. Send my love… Read more

  • Peter Greene on Our Clueless Business Leaders

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Peter Greene read the Fortune article about how business leaders are fighting valiantly to save Common Core, and he realized that they don’t have a clue about dealing with individual consumers or social media. They pour millions into creating astroturf groups and blogs without readers, but they don’t… Read more

  • Tis the season for donating and contributing your money to scam artists and frauds

    Con artists may take advantage of your generosity this time of year with bogus charities posing as legitimate ones. Read more

  • Is Tim Cook, the CEO of APPLE, ignorant or a fraud?

    For one room to hold all of the tool and die makers working in the United States, it would have to be at least 456 thousand square feet in size. Read more

  • Things Are Not Going So Well for the Privatizers

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: It is true that they have a lot of money–Gates, Broad, Walton, Dell, Wasserman, Arnold, Helmsley, and about two dozen other foundations. Maybe more. And they have the U.S. Department of Education. But none of their big ideas is working. Study after study shows that charters on average… Read more