San Francisco In the wake of the disclosures that the National Security Administration has been amassing data from tech companies and telecommunications outfits on personal, domestic internet activity and phone calls, the companies seem to be doing a lot of dissembling and lawyerly lying about what they are doing and not doing, even though it …
Month: June 2013
Banks Continue Overdraft Rip-off
San Francisco The news that I could put in file folder entitled “banking as a criminal enterprise,” just keeps getting bigger. The Justice Department made headlines zinging two big banks, Zions and First Delaware on a settlement for billings for their profit making in facilitating fraud by telemarketers and others. I noticed that part of …
School Tracking versus Dynamic Grouping
San Francisco In any discussion of inequality over the last 30 years, “tracking” in public schools, where children are sorted out by initial abilities often determining expectations and future progress, has always been on the short list in any discussion. More recently with the furor over reform, the discussion somewhat receded, but perhaps because other …