By Mark | August 24, 2011
As you know, I’m not a big fan of the post-No Child Left Behind public education system we have here in America. I believe, as I’ve stated before on several occasions, that the American public school system, which was once the envy of the world, is being purposefully dismantled by wealthy individuals, and the politicians […]
Posted in Education, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged education reform, excessive testing, Finland, FInnish Lessons, Olli Luukkainen, Pasi Sahlberg, plutonomy, public education, tax the rich, teach to the test, the exploitation of the stupid, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich, threats to the middle class |
Harvard professor Jill Lepore, the author of The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History, has a brilliant op-ed in today’s New York Times on the life of Benjamin Franklin’s sister, Jane Mecom. It should be required reading for anyone who ever attended a Tea Party rally and […]
Posted in Economics, History, Other, Politics, Rants | Tagged American history, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franlin, Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women, fetishes, founding father fetish, founding fathers, Harvard, Jane Mecom, Jill Lepore, misunderstanding American history, Path to Prosperity, Paul Ryan, Poor Law, poverty, public education, rewriting history, tea party, tricorne hat, women's rights |
Given our discussion the other day about agriculture in the inner city of Detroit, I thought that some of you might be interested to learn about this August 1 tour of farms being given by the Detroit Agriculture Network. Here’s a clip from their email announcing the 10th annual Urban Garden Tour. [Thanks to Jim […]
By Mark | November 6, 2012
Last night, I told you how I intend to vote on Michigan’s six state-wide ballot proposals. And, tonight, my plan, if I can keep from falling asleep, is to tell you what I think about all of the races for elected office, and the local proposals that we’ll be voting on in Ypsilanti. Before we […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Zemke, Andy LaBarre, Brian Mackie, Brian Mosallam, Bridget Mary McCormack, Carol Kuhnke, Catherine McClary, Charter Revision Commission, City Charter, Conan Smith, Connie Marie Kelley, consolidation, David Rutledge, Debbie Stabenow, Diane McKnight Morton, D’Real Graham, Election Day, Election Protection Coalition, Emergency Manager, Evan Pratt, Felicia Brabec, Gary Peters, Gretchen Driskill, Jeff Irwin, Jerry Clayton, Joel Ferguson, John Dingell, Kim Trent, Kurt Haskell, Lawrence Kestenbaum, Lois Richardson, Lupe Ramos-Montigny, Mark Bernstein, Michael Woodyard, Michelle Fecteau, Obama, Patrick McLean, Pete Murdock, Richard Landau, Rolland Sizemore, Ronnie Peterson, Sandra Hughes O’Brien, Shauna Ryder Diggs, Sheila Johnson, Susan Moeller, Syed Taj, Wes Prater, Yousef Rabhi, Ypsi Public School District, Ypsilanti School Board |
Increasing, we’re seeing students in Detroit step-up and fight for the educations that they’re entitled to as American citizens. Every few weeks, it seems, there’s a different battle being waged. If it’s not kids being arrested for protesting the closing of their schools, it’s kids being suspended for having the audacity to demand that they […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Education, Uncategorized | Tagged Catherine Ferguson Academy, Clark Park, demands, Detroit Public Schools, Freddie Burse, Frederick Douglass Academy, free school, Maybury Elementary, Occupy Ypsilanti, poetry, Raychel Gafford, Roy Roberts, school closings, social justice, Southwest Detroit, Southwest Detroit Freedom School, Southwestern High School, Steve Wasko, students, the challenges of urban students, we need a revolution |
