Outsourcing educational services: financialization and fighting back by unions
by Juan Garcia, a rank-and-file member of CUE-Teamsters Local 2010 and member of New Direction, a reform movement inside of CUE-Teamsters I'm sure UCB is a testing ground for this model and I know other UCs and education institutes are using "cost-savings" centers as a guise to impose worse working-condition more ...
Assemblyperson Portantino responds to CA CAFR $8 trillion: he ignored it
Below is Assemblymember Anthony Portantino’s response to my request to address the State of California’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) data and collective state CAFR’s from ~14,000 various government entities in the state that respectfully document $600 billion and $8 trillion in surplus taxpay more ...
Some Ugly Details from the Daley/Duncan/Obama Connection
It is not my custom to spend time on an article from American Thinker, a conservative publication whose political editor brags about appearances on the Dennis Miller show, but Unsolved Mystery: D.C. Public Schools Cheating Scandal by M. Catharine Evans and Ann Kane is informative and important. I'm interested more ...
Incremental fascism, drop by drop: Galvanic bracelets that measure student engagement
Welcome to the Brave New World In the ‘you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff’ category, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spending about $1.1 million to develop a way to physiologically measure how engaged students are by their teachers’ lessons. This involves “galvanic skin response” bracelets that kids would more ...
Making the Case for Economic Relocalization
The Economics of Happiness (2011) Film Review The term “economic relocalization,” which has been around about four years, describes the global movement of loosely knit Transition Towns and other grassroots networks working to strengthen local and regional economies and systems of food and energy production. I more ...
Incremental fascism, drop by drop: Galvanic bracelets that measure student engagement
Welcome to the Brave New World In the ‘you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff’ category, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spending about $1.1 million to develop a way to physiologically measure how engaged students are by their teachers’ lessons. This involves “galvanic skin response” bracelets that kids would more ...
Incremental fascism, drop by drop: Galvanic bracelets that measure student engagement
Welcome to the Brave New World In the ‘you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff’ category, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spending about $1.1 million to develop a way to physiologically measure how engaged students are by their teachers’ lessons. This involves “galvanic skin response” bracelets that kids would more ...
Assemblyperson Portantino responds to CA CAFR $8 trillion: he ignored it
Below is Assemblymember Anthony Portantino’s response to my request to address the State of California’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) data and collective state CAFR’s from ~14,000 various government entities in the state that respectfully document $600 billion and $8 trillion in surplus taxpay more ...
Abuses by commodity schools put landmark program, veterans’ education at risk:
For Immediate Release: Contact: Will Jenkins / Heather Fluit – 202-224-4024 Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Holds Hearing on Webb Legislation to Preserve Post-9/11 G.I. Bill Abuses by some schools put landmark program, veterans’ education at risk WASHINGTON, DC —Sen more ...
Bilderberg Meeting a Wrap, Who Would Trust these People?
By Michael Collins (Chantilly, VA 6/3/2012) The Bilderberg Group completed its annual meeting today in Northern Virginia. The group was founded in 1954 by the financial, political, and military elites of Europe and the United States. Annual meetings provide for "regular, off-the-record discussions [to] help c more ...
