Will Wikipedia Replace Your Kid's Teacher?, The “Blue Screen Of Death” For Education Options Rating

[Jon Awbrey]

There's a couple of Articles + Commentaries at PolicyMic that bear on the current topic —

Edward Williams • Three Ways The Federal Government Must Guide Education

Daniel Keener • Corporations Have Stranglehold On U.S. Politics

Jon

[Jon Awbrey]

Debate at PolicyMic • “Should Education Be Controlled Federally Or Locally?”

Chris Nowak • National Standards Are a Step In The Right Direction

Jordan Wolf • Keep It Local

Jon

[Rhindle]

I'll add this:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/06/living/teach...ents/index.html

At one time the last thing you wanted was your parents to be informed of your dirty deeds. Now, your parents act like your lawyer and question everything. The article mentions that the average teacher career is 4.5 years. I already knew that half of teachers hired don't make it past their 3rd year.

[Jon Awbrey]

I'll add this:

What teachers really want to tell parents

At one time the last thing you wanted was your parents to be informed of your dirty deeds. Now, your parents act like your lawyer and question everything. The article mentions that the average teacher career is 4.5 years. I already knew that half of teachers hired don't make it past their 3rd year.

I don't know the stats, but I'm guessing that some of this is due to the involvement of Teach For America, a training program for developing an absentee managerial class to help demolish public schools.

Jon

[The Joy]

It seems the Finnish model is becoming popular in the U.S.

West Virginia learns Finland's 'most honorable profession': Teacher

Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?

[Jon Awbrey]

It seems the Finnish model is becoming popular in the U.S.

West Virginia learns Finland's 'most honorable profession': Teacher

Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?

If by “model” you mean what she looks like on the runway and not the kind of diet it takes to put her there.

Jon

[Jon Awbrey]

Recent Articles, Debates, and Discussions on Education at PolicyMic —

1. Matthew Clair • Better Literacy Will Close The Achievement Gap
2. Devin Byrka • Education Policy Must Tackle Summer Learning Loss
3. Devin Byrka • Fix Education By Having Students Ask, Not Answer
4. Jordan Wolf • Keep It Local
5. Chris Nowak • National Standards Are A Step In The Right Direction
6. Andrew Hanson • Solving America's Education Crisis
7. Jacinda Chan • The Case For Nationalized Education Systems
8. Edward Williams • Three Ways The Federal Government Must Guide Education
9. HJ Mai • U.S. Receives An “F” With No Child Left Behind

[Jon Awbrey]

What's really going on is merely a precursor to privatization.

Back in the 90s, shortly after Michael Milken was released from Club Fed and given a job teaching business to students at UCLA, he remarked that the public schools had a large, unexploited capital base.

Hersh,

Do you have a source for this statement?

Thanks,

Jon

[gomi]

This does not necessarily fully support Hersh's statement, but it is related to it:

The Nation: The Education of Mike Milken

This is from 1999. Shortly afterward, Milken got prostate cancer, and his focus turned to healthcare.

For the record, I have not read the balance of this thread, and I'm not taking a position on any particular issue.

[Jon Awbrey]

This does not necessarily fully support Hersh's statement, but it is related to it:

The Nation : The Education of Mike Milken

This is from 1999. Shortly afterward, Milken got prostate cancer, and his focus turned to healthcare.

For the record, I have not read the balance of this thread, and I'm not taking a position on any particular issue.

Thanks ❢

Jon

[Jon Awbrey]

Further Discussion @ PolicyMic —

Ways That The Insanely Rich And Powerful Make Us Poorer

[The Joy]

George Carlin's "The American Dream"

[TungstenCarbide]

George Carlin's "The American Dream"

That's true for most of the industrialized world. Gone is the day when men hung their own shingle in the pursuit of happiness. Now we all work for the man, in one way or the other.

This post has been edited by TungstenCarbide: Wed 16th November 2011, 12:13am

[Jon Awbrey]

Bloomberg Businessweek • Education According To Mike Milken

[TungstenCarbide]

Bloomberg Businessweek • Education According To Mike Milken

that guy is slippery as an eel

[Jon Awbrey]

Bloomberg Businessweek • Education According To Mike Milken

that guy is slippery as an eel

Curiously enough, this came up again in the following context —

PolicyMic • Raising Taxes Won't Solve America's Debt Problem

Oh, And Happy Beethoven's Birthday, Everybody ❢❢❢

Jon

[The Joy]

Bloomberg Businessweek • Education According To Mike Milken

that guy is slippery as an eel

Curiously enough, this came up again in the following context —

PolicyMic • Raising Taxes Won't Solve America's Debt Problem

Oh, And Happy Beethoven's Birthday, Everybody ❢❢❢

Jon

[Jon Awbrey]

Modern School • The Convict Who Stole Public Education — Milken’s Online Learning Cash Cow

We hear plenty about the billionaire boys club that has taken control over much of the education reform debate, the unholy triumvirate of Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton Family Foundation. However, they are just the tip of the iceberg. The rogue’s gallery of Ed Deformers who are buying up charter schools, capitalizing on NCLB, bashing teachers, and generally destroying public education as we know it, includes numerous hedge fund managers, bankers, billionaires, millionaires, and even a few convicted felons, like junk bond peddler Michael Milken.

[Rhindle]

[Jon Awbrey]

See also Facebook • Wear Red For Public Ed