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Billionaires Want Poor Children’s Brains to Work Better
By Gerald Coles Source: CounterPunch Why are many poor children not learning and succeeding in school? For billionaire Bill Gates, who funded the start-up of the failed Common Core Curriculum Standards, and has been bankrolling the failing charter schools movement, and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, education, elites, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Bill Gates, charter schools, Common Core, economic inequality, Economics, Education, elites, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, No Child Left Behind, Pedagogy, Poverty, privatization
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Terrorizing School Children in the American Police State
By Henry Giroux Source: Counterpunch Americans live in an age, to rephrase, W.E.B. Dubois, in which violence has become the problem of the twenty-first century. As brutalism comes to shape every public encounter, democratic values and the ethical imagination wither … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, education, Militarization, police state, Privatization, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged civil liberties, Education reform, Militarization, Neoliberalism, Pedagogy, Police Militarization, police state, Police Violence, Prison-Industrial Complex, Prisons, Privitization, racism, School to Prison Pipeline, schools, Violence
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Towards a Critical Public Pedagogy of Predatory Anthropocene
By Michael B. McDonald Source: The Hampton Institute In 2015, a group of scientists published ” The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration “. They showed that rising consumption and increasing rates of impact on Earth Systems began after … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Philosophy, Science, society, State Crime, Technology
Tagged Anthropocene, environment, Ethnosphere, Industry, Mechanosphere, Neoliberalism, Pedagogy, Population, technology, Totalitarianism
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