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July 27, 2006
Ed School Obscenity
Mark Coffey at Decision '08 highlights an article in the suberb City Journal that relates the poisonous influence of so-called critical pedagogy--that is, the application of the usual Marxist/Grammscian/relatavist template to K-12 education. Mark:
Whatever it is that Is wrong with America’s public schools…and clearly something is (most of the trouble comes from the three letters NEA), I bet, if asked to name the top ten problems, you wouldn’t come up with ‘capitalist hegemony’. Yet that’s exactly the diagnosis offered by Bill Ayers, former domestic terrorist with the Weather Underground and now…Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Bill Ayers, distinguished professor? I'm tempted to use extreme profanity but I'll resist for now. That this person holds a position of influence in the education academy is a true obscenity.
It's worth bearing in mind that, just as the Democratic party was in control of the south throughout the worst period of Jim Crow, so too have the Dems had a stranglehold on public education for the last one hundred years or so.
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