Where Is George Orwell Now That We Need Him?

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• 1 Education Blogs and the PR Spies Who Love Them at Education for the Aughts - American School Issues and Analysis
  · Jul 10, 2008 at 7:01 pm

  [...] UFT’s Leo “Logical Garbage Plate” Casey, who references Orwell – and apparently means it. [...]

• 2 Paul Schickler
  · Jul 10, 2008 at 7:09 pm

  The tagline for “The X-Files” was “The truth is out there.” Apparently that’s what the DOE– whose veracity is just about on a par with the X-Files — is worried about. But flogging the blogs and the media in an attempt to squelch the truth is like playing Whack-a-Mole. It just keeps popping up somewhere else. Question: How many DOE flacks does it take to varnish the truth? Answer: More than 14.

• 3 Chris Cerf, Sol Stern and Truth | Edwize
  · Jul 15, 2008 at 1:59 pm

  [...] The New York Sun reported, and Leo Casey highlighted in a recent Edwize post, the DoE has created its very own Ministry of Truth. If you’d like to catch a glimpse of its [...]

• 4 ‘Kette On The DoE And Achievement Gaps | Edwize
  · Jul 22, 2008 at 12:43 pm

  [...] is keeping the folks at the NYC DoE’s Ministry of Truth working into the wee hours of the morning, with this week’s deconstruction of the [...]

• 5 1984: the perpetual year « Literati in the World
  · Aug 16, 2008 at 12:11 pm

  [...] ire of bloggers by creating a Truth Squad to monitor and correct invalid information on blogs.  Commentators across the blogosphere began using the term “Ministry of Truth” to describe the new [...]

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