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New Orleans To the degree that many so-called educational “reformers” like to tout New Orleans and the post-Katrina usurpation of much of the school system through federal money bribes and legislative do-overs as a model, it is worth seeing how the tendency to no accountability and educational autocracy continues unabated. The original executive orders that seized [...] Detroit It is very depressing to read about the inability to make advances in the equity and achievement of all levels of education despite the technological advantages and increasing availability of internet access. Costs continue to soar at both public and private educational institutions. E-education options now seem beleaguered by low standards, scams, and reputational [...] New Orleans News flash from the military of all places! If you create a level of equity and seek to eliminate racism in the classroom, results will shine, and you will out public schools. If you try to teach and actually educate children, rather than “teaching to the test,” their reading and other scores on those [...] New Orleans Walking downstairs in the predawn there was the smell of smoke in the air. It smelled exactly like a Delhi morning where the acrid dawn is a daily greeting. Something must be burning on the bayous. It was enough of a sign that it must be time to talk about Anna Hazare [...] New Orleans Ideologues with chips on their shoulders about the nation’s public school systems seem committed to doing everything possible to make sure there’s no level playing field to allow comparison of charter school performance as opposed to regular school district performances. Reading the hometown paper in New Orleans, there was an item a week [...] Raising the ACORN flag in the office Nairobi The ACORN Kenya community organizers, Sammy Ndirangu and David Musungu, met Judy Duncan, head organizer of ACORN Canada, Drummond Pike formerly of Tides and now colleague at Paladin Partners, and me just outside of the Korogocho mega-slum at 350,000 people, the 2nd largest in Nairobi after [...] New Orleans Anytime there’s an article with a headline that claims there is “hope for the world’s poorest” and the author is someone as sturdy as New York Times columnist David Leonhardt, my fingers are crossed and my eyes are flying. In this case he was touting a new book and argument by a British [...] From the National Geographic article featuring ACORN International ragpickers. From National Geographic Article Mumbai Vinod Shetty, ACORN India’s Director, and I had been meeting for hours along Juhu Road at the Sip ‘N Munch going through our work list of what needed to be done on campaigns around remittances, the Commonwealth [...] |
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