Hey Doug, compliments for LBO 127. I especially like the Walker on California piece, naturally. Anybody out here who is paying attention is staring into a vaccum. Fuck me, now what? Charter to Nowhere, and Glum future were good.
Maybe I'll push a theoretical parallel passed its application, but here goes. Just like the establishment celebrated (enforced?) arts were somehow drained of art sometime in the 70s, the institutional systems of education were drained of education---starting at the top at the advanced grad level where somekind of honning of the critical practice, intellect and sensibility was suppose to take place.
>From LBO 127, ``Testing turns reading instruction into mere technique. As
former charter advocate turned critic Diane Ravitch notes in her fine new
book, kids don't learn to read books---they learn to decode texts.''
CG