Critical Theories in Education
Back in the day, when I first started blogging at Where The Blog Has No Name, I wrote quite a bit about music, something I’ve not done in recent years. Thought I’d share my favourite tunes of 2013, which includes some blues, R&B, Americana, folk, pop, rock, post-rock, electronica, and a bit of hip hop. […]
Books Scholarly articles Popular writing My research focuses on the influence of social and institutional contexts on teachers’ practice as well as the role of curriculum and teaching in building a democratic society in the face of antidemocratic impulses of greed, individualism, and intolerance. In recent years I’ve examined the influence of the educational standards […]
Richard Rothstein’s post today on the Educational Policy Institute web site clearly describes how US education policy in recent years (e.g., the No Child Left Behind Act) has destroyed schools as places of learning. There is no doubt NCLB is a failed policy by any standards you want to invoke (see, for example, Larry Stedman’s […]
Dear Friends, Adam Renner, the Rouge Forum Community Coordinator, has died at 40. Adam was a wonderful friend, teacher, writer, musician, martial artist, and honest, caring man. His courage had taken remarkable forms–from being willing to sacrifice to help others, to always learning, and altering his views, on the path to discover what is true […]
March 4th is right around the corner and the local, national and international anticipation for this historic day is growing by the minute. Students, teachers, staff, parents and workers from all over California, the nation and the world have been organizing and building for the Strike and Day of Action. Below is a tentative list […]
They Say Get Back! We Say Fight Back! Strike, Educate, Agitate, Occupy on March 4th to Transform Public Education. Defend Education from the Ruling Classes! On the Little Rouge School Front: Call For Proposals–Rouge Forum Conference August 2-5, 2010 Detroit Federation of Teachers Uses Cops Vs Members: The DFT leadership had police greeting members coming […]
From RockRap.com: White Stripes Protest Super Bowl Ad for Air Force Reserve By DAVE ITZKOFF In song, at least, the band the White Stripes has boasted that it can hold off a seven-nation army. But now that rock group is taking on an entire branch of the United States Armed Forces, contending that it misused […]
Here’s the last of the mix tapes I put together for 2009. My buddy Perry down on the Edge of the Continent threw down the gauntlet with a challenge to select my “best of the decade” tunes and put them on one disc. Well, I’m not discerning enough to get my best of the year […]
I recently posted a listing of top ten favorite cds (both new music and reissues/covers/live) released in 2009 and a mix tape playlist of my favorite new music. Below is a playlist culled from reissued cds, box sets, covers, and live versions of previously released tunes released in 2009. E. Wayne’s Faves of 2009 (Reissues, covers, live […]
Dear Friends, It is nearly Mayday, the international workers holiday. Since the massive 2006 immigrant rights marches, what amounted to the biggest general strike in the last seventy years, Mayday is finally restored to the US, where it began. For far too many years, it was replaced by Law Day (imposed in the fifties), a […]
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