Comments on: Private Interests First [Updated]

By: Phonicsgate | Edwize

Phonicsgate | Edwize — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:01:11 +0000

[...] Gadfly. It is a full-throated defense of the role of Bush’s Department of Education in Phonicsgate — at least up until the point Margaret Spellings had the designated fall guy, former Reading [...]

By: Jackie Bennett

Jackie Bennett — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:23:58 +0000

If the Bush administration could stack the research on global warming, stem cell research, the invasion of Iraq, and the air quality at ground zero,what chance has reading got?

This report from the Inspector General ought to remind citizens all over the country to look more closely at their own schools and to question the decisions made by boards, panels, and the like. Here in NYC I have always been appalled that Klein has imposed one reading approach upon one million children (and their teachers) in something like 1400 schools. What, if any, are the political and economic forces that have been at work in the selection? I don’t have the answer, but it certainly seems a question worth asking.

(Exactly how we should ask it however, I’m not sure, there being no room for the public in our public schools.)

By: R. Skibins

R. Skibins — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:49:03 +0000

This comes as no surprise to me, as this Republican-led government, to use their own words, has no accountability. This is no different from when Mayor Bloomberg got rid of people who were voting against his takeover of the DOE, which has led to the Saddam Hussein-style “leadership” of our schools. If you don’t agree with the chancellor, or if you stand up for your rights, they get rid of you!

Is making sure that Reading First is the only program passing muster any different than the chancellor selecting Everyday Math, to the financial benefit of Diana Lam’s husband? This program has been rejected by districts throughout the nation.

By the way, I despise the whole language approach. Is it any coincidence that the advent of the whole language approach coincides with the dropping of the literacy rate in this country?

By: institutional memory

institutional memory — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:37:58 +0000

BUSH MAFIA HAS DAMAGED FABRIC OF AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YEARS TO COME
To “beat the [expletive deleted] out of the dirtbags who disagree with us” has been the predominant policy engine of a thuglike Bush administration.

After the wholesale government-sponsored pillaging that has occurred since 2000, years of healing will be required before any semblance of faith can be restored in our once-proud government.

The divisions in our culture are unprecedented since the Civil War era, and the damage that these criminals have wrought is enormous. This is a sad time in American history.