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from Flor-uh-duh Bob’s EZ Entrepreneurial Guide to Charter Riches!
As a would-be artist of the con, you follow in a great American tradition going all the way back to John D. Rockefeller’s father, the Dr. Marvel medicine show guy who traveled the West selling Everything Cures. Many possibilities for … Continue reading
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Your Updated Guide to Scary Repugnican Bedtime-for-Democracy Stories
In 2020-21, the smarter Repugnicans looked at the BLM protests and were scared half out of their Klan robes. (I know, in the age of the Trump Limbo Party, smart Republicans, like Congressional ethics, is a bit of an oxymoron, … Continue reading
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American Kakistocracy: Rule by the Most Ignorant
Can we survive the likes of Trump? How well I remember Sarah Palin giving a speech, very shortly after she was chosen as McCain’s running mate, in which she laughed and sneered, outraged, that the government had spent some x … Continue reading
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The Promise of Ed Tech
Ed tech companies are, of course, trying to take advantage of the pandemic to sell politicians and administrators on replacing teachers with educational technology. So, thought I would try my hand at writing some ad copy for these companies: Help … Continue reading
Reviewing a Review: Annie Murphy Paul on Diane Ravitch’s Slaying Goliath
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchers?), Juvenal, Satire VI On January 21, 2020, Annie Murphy Paul’s “review” of Diane Ravitch’s Slaying Goliath appeared in The New York Times. Being reviewed in the Times is a big deal. Such … Continue reading
Robert’s Rule
ROBERT’S RULE: If you are wondering whether a new policy, procedure, technology, law, regulation, or system is a good idea, just think of the worst person at the worst time in the future wielding its power. –Robert D. Shepherd Bob’s … Continue reading
Posted in Ed Reform, Existentialism, Technology, Trump (Don the Con)
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Putting That Quotation in Scare Quotes, or Bob’s Shepherd’s Laws of Quotation and Attribution in the Age of the Internet
1. In the age of the Internet, all quotations should be suspect but aren’t. 2. All quotations get improved by repeated transmission. 3. Few quotations on Internet threads resemble, even remotely, their originals. 4. When in doubt, attribute a quotation, … Continue reading
Killing Ed Deform and Making American Education Suck Less: Some Suggestions
The subtitle of Diane Ravitch’s Blog, one of my favorite Internet sites, is “A site to discuss better education for all.” It’s wonderful to read, on her site, the heated discussions of curricula and pedagogy. As many readers of her … Continue reading
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A Warning to Parents about Online Learning Programs
Contemporary Online Learning Programs Are Behaviorist Programmed Learning Brought Back from the Dead–Put a Stake in Them before They Take Over Your Kid’s School Sometimes it is overt, and sometimes it is hidden and not so obvious, but most … Continue reading
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