MISSION FOR CAPITALISM by RICH GIBSON AT: http://www.richgibson.com/blog/
Rich Gibson Draws parallels... Our commons Public Schools have become the fertile grounds for privatization (Capitalism)...
A Reminder on Why the Common Core the Council of Foreign Relations, led by war-hawk Condoleeza Rice (“We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud,”) issued its Education Task Force Report, demonstrating in clear terms that the education agenda is a war agenda: class and empire’s wars.
“Human capital will determine power in the current century, and the failure to produce that capital will undermine America’s security…Large, undereducated swaths of the population damage the ability of the United States to physically defend itself, protect its secure information, conduct diplomacy, and grow its economy.”
In the midst of World War I, a general demanded that the schools become “human munition factories.” That capitalist schools serve a capitalist state is key to grasping the war project at hand. http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/28/detroit-and-the-international-war-of-the-rich-on-the-poor/
Hawaii Teachers build the Scaffold that Will Hang Them (Ya Can’t teach a Sneetch) Gov. Neil Abercrombie wasted no time in signing off on the new contract public schoolteachers ratified last night.
At a news conference this morning, the governor and officials with the state Department of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers Association made the four-year deal official. It now heads to the Legislature for funding approvals.
Abercrombie told reporters he believes the contract, which will tie teachers’ pay raises in part to student performance, should be celebrated as one of the most progressive contracts in the country.
Ninety-five percent of teachers voting voted to ratify the deal, which includes annual pay increases and reduced medical premiums for teachers, and ends a two-year labor dispute with the state. http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20130418_Abercrombie_HSTA_sign_contract_after_teachers_ratify_deal.html
Michigan Governor Snyder’s Secret Plan to Voucherize Capitalist Schooling Gov. Rick Snyder on Friday defended his administration’s involvement in a secret project that is trying to develop a cheaper way to deliver public education through a voucher-like funding system.
The education reform advisory team’s existence had been secret until The Detroit News reported Friday about a months-long “skunk works” project to design a new “value school” that costs $5,000 per child annually to operate — $2,000 less than the state’s minimum per-pupil funding. The group includes employees of software companies, charter school advocates and five state employees.From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130420/SCHOOLS/304200345#ixzz2R9TbeS7C
National Black Education Agenda on the Common Core Neither the assumptions of “A Nation at Risk” nor the soon to be implemented“Common Standards,” both of which assume an American student population
embodied with a similar history of freedom and cultural neutrality, is sufficient to educate students of African descent whose ancestors in the United States bore the scars of physical and mental chains of enslavement and who themselves, whether they recognize it or not, are still victimized by a white supremacist culture and
school curriculum.
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