Critical Theories in Education
Via RockRap.com–Hag shares his thoughts on his tour partner, Bob Dylan, as well as the “war on terror,” and country music… “I don’t even consider myself country anymore. I identify more with what’s happening in rock and roll right now, and it’s the rock people who seem to identify with me the most, and treat […]
Via RockRap.com: Music CD swappers turn to snail mail Start-up lala.com will help, for a fee By Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe Staff | May 5, 2006 It may be a crime to swap digital music over the Internet, but there’s no law against doing it through the Postal Service. That’s the theory behind La La […]
BBC: ‘Copy our music’ urges rock band A new rock group featuring former members of The Clash and Generation X has taken a novel approach to the issue of piracy by urging their fans to copy their music. Carbon Silicon make all their recordings freely available online, and actively encourage bootlegging or filming of their […]
Last year the Bottom Line bit the dust. Now, another lengendary New York rock/punk club is in trouble. Reports are that CBGB’s next (improbable) home might be Las Vegas. CBGB is the famous/infamous launch pad for punk bands Television, Talking Heads, Ramones, Sex Pistols, etc. Its existence is now threatened by the gentrification of of […]
I found out this past Saturday that my long time friend and colleague Steve Fleury passed away last night in New York. Steve was a first rate intellectual, a farmer, talented musician, a community and educational activist, storyteller and a droll comic. He studied with Jack Mallan (author of No G.O.D.s in the Classroom) […]
Rich Gibson, guest blogger, asks Why Have School? Dear Students and School Workers, Perhaps you can challenge your friends, teachers, and colleagues, or maybe torment the worst one, with a little exercise I use at the beginning of every class: Why have school? Why are we here? I ask that question in class one, advising […]
I used to post quite a bit about music here on the Where The Blog Has No Name, so please excuse the interruption of blogs on education and politics. I’ve slowly been working my way through Bob Dylan’s Complete Album Collection Vol. 1 the past year while reading Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus. […]
While everyone in British Columbia is paying attention to the teachers’ strike, the Fraser Institute launched its latest effort to marketize education. This week the Fraser Institute, a neoliberal think tank, released a report promoting incentivized pay for teachers. Teacher Incentive Pay That Works, summarizes 10 “case studies” from around the globe, which the Fraser […]
Public funding for private schools is at odds with creating a more equitable, just, and democratic society. It is a policy that almost always privileges families with more disposable income over the less wealthy and poor and often privileges religious education over secular education. Moreover, public funding of private schools supports a two-tiered system of […]
Rouge Forum 2014 runs from June 5-7 at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Check out the details here. Every year the Rouge Forum honors the life and work of Adam Renner (August 18, 1970 – December 19, 2010) by inviting a critical scholar, educator, or activist to deliver the Adam Renner Education for Social Justice […]