A Writer’s Blog

  • Join Us in the Fight For Net Neutrality

    Originally posted on WordPress.com News: “Net Neutrality” is the simple but powerful principle that cable and broadband providers must treat all internet traffic equally. Whether you’re loading a blog post on WordPress.com, streaming House of Cards on Netflix, or browsing handcrafted tea cozies on Etsy, your internet provider can’t degrade your connection speed, block sites,… Read more

  • What Is the Real Cost of Federally-funded Common Core Tests?

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This report from the Pew Charitable Trusts says that many states are reconsidering the costs of Common Core testing, and a small number have withdrawn from participation in the two federally-funded tests, PARCC or Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. “But as controversy over the Common Core has challenged some states’… Read more

  • Is it possible to protect the United States from ISIS jihadi attacks?

    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Yellow journalism is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration, and a yellow journalist dressed up as an ISIS jihadi was videotaped as he walked across the border to Texas from Mexico with a fake severed head in hand, and the story made the news on September 5, 2014,… Read more

  • Hot Coffee reveals the Capitalist threat to all aspects of Democracy

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: My wife and I watched an award winning documentary Thursday night (September 4, 2014). It was called “Hot Coffee: Is Justice Being Served?” The DVD for the documentary was released November 1, 2011, and Amazon sells the DVD for more than $24.00, but you may be… Read more

  • The Corporate Global Privatizing Complex

    Originally posted on educationalchemy: Most folks are versed in (or at least have heard of) terms like “military industrial complex,” “factory farms” or even “education industrial complex” (a phrase used by educator Troy Grant and others). I believe these terms are still useful for a qualitative description of some of the facets of what we… Read more

  • Jeff Bryant: Time to Regulate Charter Schools

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jeff Bryant of the Education Opportunity Network notes that the charter industry has launched an advertising campaign to sell the charter idea to the public. But, writes Bryant, there have been so many revelations of corruption, self-dealing, and rogiterring by charter schools in recent months that the public should… Read more