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I Didn't Mean to Be Politically Prescient, But …
This is a poem I wrote in 2012, mostly out of a growing cynicism about mainstream politics. However, it appears that this presidential season has proven me to be far more prescient than I intended:
Circus was a festive land, especially at Festival.
Every citizen was proud to be part of the 3Rings.
This day the Tent was snaked with lines to vote,
and he had learned the slogans by heart as a child:
"Your Ring, Your Clown, Your Choice" and
"A Choice Is a Terrible Thing to Waste."
So he waited his turn to choose between two cards—
Ring 1: Barnum Party Blue, Ring 2: Bailey Party Red.
Either choice he already knew, but dared not utter:
When he chose his card and returned to the elephants,
he remained forever Carny1691 with a shovel because
nothing was ever different behind the paint of a Clown.
Students, Not Standards: Calling for Solidarity in 2016
Many years ago, I was sitting in the last class session of the capstone secondary ELA methods course as part of my M.Ed. The guest speaker that day was my high school English teacher, the man responsible for my primary career path, Lynn Harrill.
Lynn was friends with the professor, who was then working at the state department of education, I believe.
Toward the end of the class, the professor asked what we wanted our students to know when they left our classes. That question was followed by lingering silence.
Ever the eager student, I said, "I want them to know themselves," and I caught a glimpse of Lynn smiling widely.
Of course, that is what Lynn had taught me, although most people probably assumed it was reading and writing Lynn had so expertly given his students (which, by the way, was also true).
This moment—one of a very idealistic and naive young teacher, me—comes back to me often, and despite my many failures as a teacher, that grounding goal has always guided me. Not to be simplistic, but I teach students—that's why I teach.
While reading Four Stories That Homework Tells Children About School, Learning, & Life, I was struck by "STORY #3: School Is More Important Than Other Pursuits/Interests/Activities."
And now I have to investigate that memory again.
Yes, Lynn Harrill changed my life by being my sophomore and junior English teacher in high school. He was gracious, kind, and encouraging to a deeply insecure and anxious teen (me) who had decided he was a math and science person—because that is what school had told me.
Junior high English classes had been mostly draconian English teachers, grammar book exercises, and diagramming sentences. The "English" content of those classes was easy (I made As), but I loathed it all, even the texts we were assigned to read (much of which we did not read).
Now, before I launch into whining, let me be clear that my story is about how school failed me—but that because of my tremendous privilege (white, male and—according to traditional schooling and standardized tests—high verbal and mathematical intelligence), the consequences of those failures were miniscule. I attended college and continued to make As (easily), leading to an MEd and EdD.
I share this, then, not to bemoan poor pitiful me (or to brag), but to highlight that schools often fail students in ways we do not acknowledge and that the consequences for those students who need schooling most are monumental.
While I was begrudgingly playing school and succeeding, at home I was engaged in a rich array of hobbies and interests that school not only ignored, but also indirectly refuted (even Lynn told me as a 10th grader I needed to stop reading science fiction [SF] and start reading real literature such as Fitzgerald).
I was collecting, reading, and drawing from thousands of Marvel comic books. I was voraciously listening to popular music and studying the lyrics. And I was doing the same with comedy albums, mostly George Carlin and Richard Pryor.
My reading life, as I noted above, was Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Arthur C. Clarke, and whatever works were prompted by my mother's SF film fascination. I fell in love with The Andromeda Strain because of the film, and much of my formative life was driven by the five Planet of the Apes films and TV's Star Trek.
My response to the real literature endorsed by Lynn was tepid (but always the mama's boy, I did as teachers told me to do), but my life was irrevocably changed when he also recommended writers I would never be assigned in the rural South of the 1970s—notably D.H. Lawrence.
Well, damn, I thought. This is literature?
My journey from student to teacher began in my sophomore year of high school as I began to untangle the false narratives school had taught me and came to embrace the authentic narratives of my real life, my real Self, outside of school.
More than a decade into my teaching career (in the position Lynn left at my high school) and in the same doctoral program Lynn had completed, I finally discovered critical pedagogy as the complete vision of student-centered teaching and learning I had been haphazardly practicing.
Regretfully, my entire career as an educator (18 years as a high school ELA teacher and then 14 more years, and counting, as an English educator and first-year writing professor) has occurred under the antithesis of student-centered critical education—the high-stakes accountability movement.
All of which, ironically, I have been prepared for by the very reading material school marginalized, science fiction and dystopian fiction.
Standards, high-stakes tests, and accountability fail students, fail teachers. They conspire to do exactly what homework accomplishes in story #3 above.
I cannot step away form this: I must teach those students placed in my care, and that duty requires me to find out who they are, what they know, and what they want so that we can work together so that they find who they are and who they want to be.
So, I wonder with the new year, and the allure of resolutions—who is with me in 2016? Can we make this about students and not standards, not tests?
See Also
Doubling Down (Again) by Reverting, Not Changing: The Exponential Failures of Education Legislation
Teacher Quality, Wiggins and Hattie: More Doing the Wrong Things the Right Ways
More on Evidence-Based Practice: The Tyranny of Technocrats
Beware the Technocrats: More on the Reading Wars
I Don't Need Standards To Teach, I Need Students
Are Common Core and Testing Debates "Two Different Matters"?
Confronting Privilege in the New Year: "when you've been used to privilege, equality feels like prejudice"
A former student and current wonderful early-career teacher texted me yesterday because someone had shared with her the inane "I'm not going to apologize for my white privilege" article that is all the rage among white privilege deniers.
Nearly as disturbing as the pervasive and corrosive influence of racism is the reality that the more whites are confronted with evidence of white privilege and racism, the more likely whites are to cling to their denial. Research from 2015 confirms:
What happens when people are faced with evidence that their group benefits from privilege? We suggest such evidence will be threatening and that people will claim hardships to manage this threat. These claims of hardship allow individuals to deny that they personally benefit from privilege, while still accepting that group-level inequity exists. Experiments 1a and 1b show that Whites exposed to evidence of racial privilege claim to have suffered more personal life hardships than those not exposed to evidence of privilege.
Throughout 2015, I have been cataloguing the overwhelming evidence of white privilege and racism, but I am discouraged about both the abundance of that evidence and the ineffectiveness of presenting it to those clinging fervently to their white denial.
Humans are drawn to patterns, both the recognition of patterns and the creation of patterns. Maybe anthropologists and sociologists would argue that in part that attraction is about survival and comfort. I suspect this pattern fetish in humans is also at the root of seeking out others like us (see any school lunch room where students are allowed to sit where they please), and I fear it is also the foundation for the very worst of humans—our racism, sexism, classism, and seething anger at the Other.
This is not some historical low point of human history—U.S. slavery, the Holocaust, the Japanese internment—but a seemingly credible point of debate among presidential hopefuls and their supporters who are calling from banning Muslims from U.S. soil.
And as the hashtags have continued to increase (#BlackLivesMatter, #TamirRice, and then too, too many to list) so has the backlash, the denial—just as the research above confirms.
We stand at the cusp of one of our greatest pattern urges, the arbitrary designating of the passing of time. Soon a new year will be upon the West (yes, even the calendar is a force of privilege, a way to mask subjectivity as objective, universal), and at least one voice has suggested there is hope: "I believe – I hope – that a great rewriting is slowly, surely underway," writes Laurie Penny.
Penny's examination of the latest Star Wars film offers a much more detailed and powerful investigation than my own look at The Martian, but we do tread similar ground; notably Penny explains:
The people who are upset that the faces of fiction are changing are right to worry. It's a fundamental challenge to a worldview that's been too comfortable for too long. The part of our cultural imagination that places white Western men at the centre of every story is the same part that legitimises racism and sexism. The part of our collective mythos that encourages every girl and brown boy to identify and empathise with white male heroes is the same part that reacts with rage when white boys are asked to imagine themselves in anyone else's shoes.
I struggle to share Penny's optimism—because of the horrifying specter of the unfathomable nastiness in both our presidential politics and our pop culture, both of which expose the "white interpretive horizon."
Yet, I think Penny makes a powerful observation that may be the key to believing change is upon us:
Let's not get carried away here. These stories and retellings are still exceptions. Women are still paid less, respected less and promoted less at almost every level of every creative industry. For every Jessica Jones there's a Daredevil, whose female characters exist solely to get rescued, provide the protagonists with some pneumatic exposition, or both. For every Orphan Black there's Mr Robot and Narcos and you know, sometimes I wonder if perhaps I watch too much television. The point is that what we have right now isn't equality yet. It's nothing like equality. But it's still enough to enrage the old guard because when you've been used to privilege, equality feels like prejudice. [emphasis added]
White privilege is an iceberg; very little is visible above the surface, and for those of us with that privilege, it is ours to interrogate what lies beneath in order to understand and dismantle it.
"I came to explore the wreck," explains the speaker of Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck":
the thing I came for:
the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth
As Penny explains when unpacking "[t]he rage that white men have been expressing, loudly, violently":
Like a screaming toddler denied a sweet, it becomes more righteous the more it reminds itself that after all, it's only a story.
Only a story. Only the things we tell to keep out the darkness. Only the myths and fables that save us from despair, to establish power and destroy it, to teach each other how to be good, to describe the limits of desire, to keep us breathing and fighting and yearning and striving when it'd be so much easier to give in. Only the constitutive ingredients of every human society since the Stone age.
Only a story. Only the most important thing in the whole world.
This is our wreck, a story of a people blinded by the myth of meritocracy while steering the ship headlong into the iceberg we pretend isn't there.
We must write better stories, fictional and real. A new year is arbitrary, yes, but it serves us well to listen to the refrain "the time is always now."
See Also
What to do when you're not the hero any more, Laurie Penny
On Nerd Entitlement, Laurie Penny
Hello from the same side, Robin James
The horrifying lesson of Tamir Rice: White America will use "objectivity" to justify the murder of black children, Brittney Cooper
Confronting Privilege to Teach about Privilege
Bearing Witness: Hypocrisy, Not Ideology
Responsibilities of Privilege: Bearing Witness, pt. 2
High Cost of White Denial (Updated)
UPDATED: Mainstream Media in (Perpetual) Crisis: More Education Meat Grinder
UPDATE: Note Holly Yettick's One Small Droplet: News Media Coverage of Peer-Reviewed and University-Based Education Research and Academic Expertise; see abstract:
Most members of the American public will never read this article. Instead, they will obtain much of their information about education from the news media. Yet little academic research has examined the type or quality of education research and expertise they will find there. Through the lens of gatekeeping theory, this mixed-methods study aims to address that gap by examining the prevalence of news media citations of evidence that has undergone the quality-control measure of peer review and expertise associated with academics generally required to have expertise in their fields. Results suggest that, unlike science or medical journalists, education writers virtually never cite peer-reviewed research. Nor do they use the American Educational Research Association as a resource. Academic experts are also underrepresented in news media coverage, especially when compared to government officials [bold aded]. Barriers between the news media and academia include structural differences between research on education and the medical or life sciences as well as journalists' lack of knowledge of the definition and value of peer review and tendency to apply and misapply news values to social science research and expertise.
"'Only four out of ten U.S. children finish high school, only one out of five who finish high school goes to college'": This spells doom for the U.S. economy, or to be more accurate, this spelled doom for the U.S. economy.
Except it didn't, of course, as it is a quote in a 1947 issue of Time from John Ward Studebaker, a former school superintendent who served as U.S. Commissioner of Education (analogous to today's Secretary of Education) in the mid-1940s.
Jump forward to 26 December 2015 and The New York Times: As Graduation Rates Rise, Experts Fear Diplomas Come Up Short. Motoko Rich, as in the Time article, builds her case on Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, as Susan Ohanian confronts:
Here's a front page. above-the-fold New York Times non-story that's a perfect depiction of damning schools every-which-way. Schools with low graduation rates are depicted as failures; improve graduation rates, and then the diplomas they're handing out are judged to have no meaning. And the Times gives the departing Secretary of Education star billing on this issue.
Quotation of the Day
The goal is not just high school graduation. The goal is being truly college and career ready.
–ARNE DUNCAN, the departing secretary of
education, on the United States 82 percent graduation rate in 2013-14, the highest on record.–New York Times, Dec. 27, 2015
Along with the meat grinder of incessantly new high-stakes accountability standards and testing over the past thirty-plus years, U.S. public education has been demonized since the mid-1900s and relentlessly framed within crisis discourse by the mainstream media for a century.
Rich's cover piece spends an inordinate amount of energy to twist public schools into that crisis image while making no effort to investigate or challenge Duncan (a life-long appointee with no expertise in education and no credibility as a leader in education) or to unpack the stale platitudes and unsubstantiated claims about education reaching back at least to the Time article.
Duncan and Rich share, in fact, no experience or education in teaching as well as the disproportionate power of their voices in the field despite that lack of expertise.
On the other hand, I taught public high school English in rural South Carolina (not far from the school Rich highlights), have been an educator in SC over 30 years total, have a doctorate in education that emphasized the history of the field, and now am a teacher educator at a university just a couple miles from the school in Rich's piece (I know teachers there, and have had several teacher candidates placed there for field work). As well, I taught journalism and was the faculty sponsor of the school newspaper, and have been a professional writer for about the same amount of time as I have been teaching, including writing and publishing a good deal of journalism (mostly about education).
This is not, however, an attack on Duncan or Rich—because they are not unique but typical of the mismatch of high-level voice with a lack of expertise.
Mainstream media appear fatally wed to only one version of the U.S. public education story: crisis.
And thus, journalists reach out to the same know-nothings (political leaders, political appointees, think-tank talking heads) and reproduce the same stories over and over and over [1].
Here, then, let me offer a few keys to moving beyond the reductive crisis-meme-as-education-journalism:
- Public education has never been and is not now in crisis. "Crisis" is the wrong metaphor for entrenched patterns that have existed over a century. A jet plane crash landing into the Hudson River is a crisis; public education suffers under forces far more complicated than a crisis.
- Metrics such as highs-takes test scores and graduation rates have always and currently tell us more about the conditions of children's lives than to what degree public schools are effective.
- Short-hand terms such as "college and career ready" and "grade-level reading" are little more than hokum; they are the inadequate verbal versions of the metrics noted above.
- The nebulous relationship between the quality of education in the U.S. and the fragility of the U.S. economy simply has never existed. Throughout the past century, no one has ever found any direct or clear positive correlation between measures of educational quality in the U.S. and the strength of the U.S. economy.
- Yes, racial and class segregation is on the rise in the U.S., and so-called majority-minority schools as well as high-poverty schools are quickly becoming the norm of public education. While demographics of race and class remain strongly correlated with the metrics we use to label schools as failing, the problem lies in the data (high-stakes tests remain race, class, and gender biased), not necessarily the students, teachers, or administrators.
- However, historically and currently, public education's great failures are two-fold: (1) public schools reflect the staggering social inequities of the U.S. culture, and (2) public schools too often perpetuate those same inequities (for example, tracking and disciplinary policies).
The mainstream media's meat grinder of crisis-only reporting on public education achieves some extremely powerful and corrosive consequences.
First, the public remains grossly misinformed about public schools as a foundational institution in a democracy.
Next, that misleading and inaccurate crisis narrative fuels the political myopia behind remaining within the same education policy paradigm that has never addressed the real problems and never achieved the promises attached to each new policy (see from NCLB to ESSA).
And finally, this fact remains: Political and public will in the U.S. has failed public education; it has not failed us.
Mainstream media remain trapped in the education crisis narrative, I think, because neither the media nor the collective political/public consciousness is willing to confront some really ugly truths beneath the cultural commitment to the powerful and flawed rugged individual mythology in the U.S.: America is a classist, racist, and sexist society.
We are committed to allowing privilege beget privilege and to pretending that fruits of privilege are the result of effort and merit.
There is no crisis in education, but our democracy is being held hostage by incompetent politicians and a compliant mainstream media—all of which, ironically, would be served well by the sort of universal public education envisioned by the tarnished founding fathers' idealistic (and hypocritical) rhetoric [2].
[1] See Educational Expertise, Advocacy, and Media Influence, Joel R. Malin and Christopher Lubienski; The Research that Reaches the Public: Who Produces the Educational Research Mentioned in the News Media?, Holly Yettick; The Media and Educational Research: What We Know vs. What the Public Hears, Alex Molnar
[2] See Thomas Jefferson's argument for a democracy embracing education:
The object [of my education bill was] to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind which in proportion to our population shall be the double or treble of what it is in most countries. ([1817], pp. 275-276)
The less wealthy people, . .by the bill for a general education, would be qualified to understand their rights, to maintain them, and to exercise with intelligence their parts in self-government; and all this would be effected without the violation of a single natural right of any one individual citizen. (p. 50)
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the colleges and university. (p. 275)
By that part of our plan which prescribes the selection of the youths of genius from among the classes of the Poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use, if not sought for and cultivated. But of all the views of this law none is more important none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty. (p. 276)
The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. (p. 278)
NEW from IAP: Democracy and Decency: What Does Education Have to Do with It?
Publicly Funded, Not Free
Between two versions of libertarian ideology, I think, many in the U.S. have committed to the wrong one: childish Ayn Rand libertarianism instead of the child-like (idealistic) Henry David Thoreau libertarianism found in the opening of his "Civil Disobedience":
I heartily accept the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient….
But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
While I find the rugged individualism and self-defeating as well as heartless selfishness of Rand libertarianism ethically repulsive, the tension offered in Thoreau's quest for no government strikes me as a practical mechanism for maintaining democracy against the threat of totalitarianism.
And it is at his "better government" call that I think we can look to something such as the roads and highways in the U.S. for a template.
While we may quibble over road conditions near our homes or on our commute to work, I think we must all acknowledge in the U.S. that the publicly funded infrastructure is foundational for market success in the nation. As well, while we have depended on the political system to approve and fund those roads, highways, and bridges, we have not then turned over the design and construction of that system to politicians, but to engineers and construction experts.
That distinct line, however, has not been nearly as sacred in public education, where political leaders and appointees have far too much direct influence not only on the funding but also on the actually policy—the result being that we have far less to be proud of from our public schools than our public highway/road system—the former still much further from achieving the original intent than the latter.
I was reminded of all this once the social media frenzy began about President Barack Obama's plan to "mak[e] two years of community college free for students," as reported in Politico. That news prompted #FreeCommunityCollege on Twitter as well.
Against the Obama administration's abysmal record on public education, this plan certainly sounds encouraging, but the media and public response highlights a serious problem beyond the usual concern about clamoring to score partisan political points: Obama's plan if approved would create fully publicly funded and no-tuition community college, not free community college.
As well, this plan is a pale version of what Germany has recently re-embraced, as explained by Barbara Kehm:
From this semester, all higher education will be free for both Germans and international students at universities across the country, after Lower Saxony became the final state to abolish tuition fees….
It's important to be aware of two things when it comes to understanding how German higher education is funded and how the country got to this point. First, Germany is a federal country with 16 autonomous states responsible for education, higher education and cultural affairs. Second, the German higher education system – consisting of 379 higher education institutions with about 2.4m students – is a public system which is publicly funded. There are a number of small private institutions but they enroll less than 5% of the total student body.
This is not a matter of mere semantics, but the German commitment and Obama's community college proposal are about not charging students (a user fee similar to toll highways in the U.S.), but instead making a social commitment to fully publicly fund all or some of any person's higher education (an education version of our public highway system).
"Free" is not only factually inaccurate, but the implication detracts from the exact concept that needs our support now more than ever: "publicly funded" is a necessary and rightful commitment by a people that builds the foundation upon which all else exists—life, liberty, and the pursuits of happiness as well as the glorified free market in the U.S.
To return to my example above, try building your company yourself without the publicly funded roads and highways, without the publicly funded judicial system, just to start. Yes, our publicly funded institutions in the U.S. have many problems and flaws, but the one aspect about them that isn't flawed is that they are publicly funded.
While I am deeply skeptical of our partisan political system masquerading as democracy in the U.S., I certainly join those cheering Obama's plan for no-tuition community college; however, my guarded optimism has strings attached, requiring that this proposal is the first step toward addressing several issues related to education:
- Two years of no-tuition community college means little in the wake of dismantling K-12 public education, which is the ugly legacy of the Obama administration. The era of accountability-based education reform must end immediately, and then a new era of fully funding and supporting universal public education must begin—one that rejects market forces and political overstep.
- Two years of no-tuition community college means little in the wake of the massive debt being incurred by college students in the U.S. The existing debt must be addressed (eradicated where possible), and then a system that greatly lessens college-related debt must be established while we work toward a model of universal no-tuition higher education.
- Two years of no-tuition community college means little in the context of a depressed job market in which recent college graduates do not find full-time, stable work that matches their degrees. A college degree and enormous debt with no prospect of work is a nightmare, but a college degree without debt and no prospect of work isn't much better. We must recognize that education policy cannot be separated from work policy.
- Two years of no-tuition community college means little in the context of the harsh reality that educational attainment does not lessen the powerful and corrupting influence of racism and classism in the U.S. The cultural myth that education is the great equalizer is currently a false promise. Blacks with some college have about the same employment prospects as white high school drop-outs, and educational attainment is valuable within ones race, but doesn't erase inequities among races.
Instead of rushing to promote misleading hastags or to prop up a political candidate along partisan lines, we should see Obama's proposal for no-tuition community college as an opportunity to "make known what kind of government would command [our] respect," to emphasize the essential nature of publicly funded institutions that constitute "better government."
Authoritarian Schools, Authoritarian State in the Service of Privilege
The fruits of the Reagan Era are proving to be mostly poison apples.
Both begun under Reagan, mass incarceration and high-stakes education reform have escalated the rise of the authoritarian school and the authoritarian state in the service of privilege.
During the past few years, teachers and police are coming under increased scrutiny in the wake of disaster capitalism's influence how we do school and how we enforce law—significantly at the expense of children living in poverty, black and brown children, and children speaking home languages other than English.
Jose Vilson has offered a bold and critical examination of how political and public calls for greater teacher and police quality and oversight intersect, revealing, I think, that these are not simple black and white issues. Bad teachers and bad police there certainly are, but to play the flawed individual game feeds into the central problem in the U.S.: We refuse to acknowledge systemic causes (racism, sexism, homophobia) for individual situations.
Vilson builds to what I think is the crux of the matter: "To protect and to serve, and that's something we can never turn our backs to." Teachers and police are public servants, embodying the will of the people. As public servants, teachers and police fail their charge when they twist their service into authority over the public, instead of from or in service of.
Authoritarian (and thus "bad") teachers and authoritarian (and thus "bad") police are consequences of a larger reality: The U.S. is a racist and sexist nation functioning as an authoritarian state, and most of our structures serve that status quo as well as the interests of the privileged.
Democracy and meritocracy along with the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for everyone remain worthy of a people, but those are not what our public institutions serve in the U.S. today.
Sacrificing Democracy and "Other People's Children" at the Alter of Authority
Well before Bill Ayers was demonized during Barack Obama's run for president or before Ayers's radical past was more widely recognized after his memoir in 2001, I was introduced to his wonderful To Teach while in my doctoral program in the mid-1990s.
Ayers offers characterizations of traditional schooling that resonated with me then and do also now:
There are a lot of quiet, passive classrooms where not much learning is taking place, and others where children's hearts, souls, and minds are being silently destroyed in the name of good management….
In school, a high value is placed on quiet: "Is everything quiet?" the superintendent asks the principal, and the principal asks the teacher, and the teacher asks the child. If everything is quiet, it is assumed all is well. This is why many normal children—considering what kind of intelligence is expected and what will be rewarded here—become passive, quiet, obedient, dull. The environment practically demands it. (pp. 23, 64)
At nearly every level of considering education, we always come back to classroom management and discipline. And it is here I want to ask two genuinely important questions:
- Why do we persist at accountability-based education reform driven by standards and high-stakes tests even though that approach has never worked over 100+ years?
- Why do we persist with harsh policies such as police in schools, zero-tolerance, "no excuses," grade retention, and corporal punishment even though they are ineffective and even do more harm? [1]
Because all of these commitments do accomplish one thing that is actually the sacred element in formal schooling—authoritarian environments.
As long as we remain trapped in accountability reform and in-school authoritarian practices, we are admitting that we are not seeking universal public education in the service of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—individual freedom and democracy.
Authoritarian schools feed an authoritarian state (where, for example, police are feared and teachers are disrespected).
Democracy must be fertilized with schools that practice community and collaboration.
So in our necessary and important rush to honor good teachers and good police, let's be careful about our accusatory gazes because when teachers and police are bad, it may well be that their behavior reflects a failed system, an authoritarian system that serves the status quo and the interests of the privileged.
We need to lift our eyes and look closely at who supports accountability-based education reform and harsh in-school policies—and why.
There is the place to start toward better teachers and police who honor, as Vilson noted, their need to serve and protect as agents of the public good.
[1] I think in the context of these two questions, we must ask, Why are reformers convinced class size doesn't matter (despite many enrolling their children in private schools with very low class sizes)? The answer is likely that large class size forces teachers to focus primarily on classroom management/discipline and consequently accomplishes again the main objective: authoritarian classrooms.
NOTE: HT to David Kaib for a series of Tweets recently.


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Thanks for all your work.. I see that you have added a lot of memorial's in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Battle Creek, Mi.
Of the ones you added are they from headstones or the cemetery records?
Why I ask is I have added several memorial's in the last couple of weeks of persons that have died at the County Poor Farm in Marengo Twp.
Seems like most that died there are not listed in the Cemetery, so just wondering if you listed by records or headstones?
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No Thank you on the transfer, just trying to connect to family on some of the Calhoun County memorials and adding information if possible.
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There are many different kinds and types of printer paper, and one size does not fit all. In fact, a specific grade of paper that might be absolutely perfect for a particular task or purpose may be wildly inappropriate for another.Paper destined to be output on a desktop printer is generally divided into two distinct categories: photo paper, and everything else. In this article, well talk about non-photo, general-purpose paper only. Our guide to buying photo paper goes into depth on how to buy that kind of media. Every kind of paper is graded according to four different criteria.
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The premier US military academy.
We took the one hour tour... and it was amazing! The campus is so beautiful and the sight of these massive buildings is very impressive. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and...
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We took the one hour tour... and it was amazing! The campus is so beautiful and the sight of these massive buildings is very impressive. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and friendly... the museum was okay. Not so big, just the right size for a family... so definitely worth a stop!!!
In general, the only way onto West Point for civilians is as part of a guided tour. Fortunately, there's a great tour bus operation; the 1 hour 15 minute tours are informative and interesting, even if you don't have any connection to the armed forces. Definitely worth the time if your in the area.
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It was a great tour through West Point. Our guide was knowledgable and showed us great things. A history lesson for sure.
Wow, this place is impressive. Of course it is. So it starts with a quick inspection of your car, understandable that security is tight. They scan the drivers licenses of all adults. From there you are free to check out the whole place. There were tons of cadets around to direct you or point you in the right direction. Makes...
We only had a TV/movie appreciation of West Point, so doing the tour was a real eye opener. The guide conveyed a lot of facinating information.
It's a fabulous site and being able to see some of the buildings and some cadets out on the grounds was great.
Highly recommended.
I had taken the Naval Academy tour and loved it, visited the Air Force Academy and there isnt much of a tour and would put West Point in the middle of the two.
Unfortunately, unlike Annapolis, you can only go into one building, the chapel.
We took the last tour of the day and had to rush through the West...
The campus is amazing. Enjoyed all of the pomp and circumstance of Graduation weekend. Cadets, staff, and faculty were helpful, respectful, and friendly. Wear comfortable shoes as the area is hilly and you will do a lot of walking. Beautiful sites.
There is no question that if you're in the area, this is a wonderful tour. West Point is an impressive place both from physical size and the architecture, but also from it's placement overlooking the Hudson River.
The tour lasts 1 hour and 15 minutes (door to door), and the guide is chock full of useful information. But please know...
Opinions on our military involvement worldwide aside, this is a remarkable place. The history - in particular it's role in the American Revolution - the architecture, and the views of the Hudson River were immeasurably impressive.
If you don't make the trip, at least Google who graduated from West Point. It's astounding to see their achievements.
The bus tour is very interesting. Our trip was given by a 'military brat' and she had interesting tidbits from her personal experience while she lived on the base in addition to the facts that were presented. We did go into one of the chapels which was beautiful, and there was quite a bit of on and off the bus.
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We are coming to a wedding at West Point Academy in July. We will be taking the train from NYC up to the West Point area but would like to rent a car when we get off of the train. Is that possible? If so, where should we get off the train?
are there guided tours and cost
Can you order souvenirs on line ?
Anyone have an idea of how crowded West Point would be for July 4th? Do they have activities like fireworks on the 4th
VISITOR PARKING: We'd be arriving with a small camper rig; total length w/ vehicle is less than 30 ft. The Visitor Center via Google Earth reveals a short-space parking lot. Is there a larger area available to pull thru and park?
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Lets talk some more about the emergency fund, Tucker says. You may think you cant afford to have one, but you really cant afford to be without one. Why? Stuff happens! And most of the time, it costs money!
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The Red Sox won their third World Series title in a decade after beating the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6 Wednesday night at Fenway Park by the score of 6-1.
Sox slugger David Ortiz took home the World Series MVP trophy after delivering a historic .688 batting average over the six games while scoring seven runs in that span. His presence in the lineup forced the Cards to walk him four times in the deciding game.
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"I love Koji. He is my favorite Red Sox. Tremendous," glowed Mike Felger on the Sox closer.
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"From day one to now, regular season and postseason, I think it's Koji [for MVP]. He was their best, most consistent player. He was the guy who was elite from the second he got his job, until the second it ended. He never had a slump," said Felger.
If Koji Uehara had never got the closer job, both feel that the Sox would not be holding a World Series Championship duckboat parade this Saturday.
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