Originally posted on George Lakoff: This is an important book by Dr. Lakoff. I highly recommend it. You will many articles in my blog that reference George Lakoff’s work, and in the age of The Authoritarian, it critical to share Lakoff’s views with many. George...
Latest Story Jeb! Is Running: From What? On this blog I wrote several articles about influence peddling and the role played by wealthy philanthropists such as Bill Gates, "former" politicians such as Jeb Bush, and reformists organization such as Achieve, The Fordham...
An Art of Science Teaching Inquiry In this post I argue that politicians, lobbyists and corporate executives have worked together to peddle their influence in the name of educational reform. This triad of influence is dismantling public education one charter school,...
The Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd) agenda has seven "reform" priorities, and its work centers on influencing state governments to pass laws that are directly related to these reform priorities. The seven reform categories (shown in Box 1) are...
The Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd) is an organization founded in 2008 by Jeb Bush. After reading about Bush's claims that American teens were falling behind in math and science, and listening to his most recent speech at the Heritage Institute, I...
On March 5, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead signed the state's budget into law. The bill has a footnote that prohibits the Department of Education from spending any funds to check or revise the state's science standards. The reason this footnote was added to the Wyoming...
