By Mark Naison
As teachers and parents look, in amazement, at policies emanating from the US Department of Education that mandate the meticulous scripting of “student learning” beginning as early as age 3, and which require testing of “student outcomes” to evaluate their classroom performance, it is important to highlight the underlying logic behind such a program. Continue reading “An Education Policy That Presumes Family Failure and Collapse”
By Phoenix Calida
I’ve always hated the food shamers.
The people who think it’s easy for a family in poverty to eat healthy/vegan/vegetarian. The articles that talk about poor people food and then showcase recipes actual poor people can never afford.
Continue reading “Poverty and Eating Well: It’s Not So Easy”
By Phoenix Calida
…would be one hell of an entrepreneur. Under capitalism we have a system that continually promotes and praises people for terrible behavior. We have CEOs of major corporations who engage in morally ambiguous, ethically irresponsible and borderline sociopathic behaviors. Instead of shunning them or demanding accountability, we have put them on the covers of business magazines. Continue reading “A Sex Worker By Any Other Name…”
