Originally posted on Punkonomics (@DearBalak):
Or in other words, how the private sector is gutting educating to profit from your tax dollars. My wife has worked at a few charter schools now, and they were all — without exception — purely profit driven, unconcerned with students or with learning, guilty of pressuring faculty to push students through regardless of whetherContinue reading “Like Everything Else, School Reform is All About the Benjamins Too”
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Profit, HigherEd and Lessons on the Prestige Cartel
Originally posted on tressiemc:
My friend Aaron Bady (who may one day learn to spell my whole name!) had the foresight to publish his excellent analysis of temporality, future fetishization, and MOOC evangelism at his online home. He encouraged me to similarly publish my talk. Here’s the thing: I go off script. A lot. I…
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 