{"id":23362,"date":"2019-05-25T21:21:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T05:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=23362"},"modified":"2019-05-25T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T05:53:07","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-to-worry-the-empire-til-it-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-to-worry-the-empire-til-it-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: To Worry the Empire Til it Ends!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say Fight Back!<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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New Haven teachers keep striking while students keep away from classes <\/span><\/h1>\n

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The New Haven teachers strike \u2014 the second to hit the Bay Area since the week-long one in Oakland a few months ago \u2014 has moved into a third day with no end in sight and summer vacation just three weeks away.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, students of the New Haven Unified School District\u2019s schools in Union City and Hayward are staying away in droves from classrooms staffed by administrators and a dozen or more substitutes. Only about 15 percent of the district\u2019s students went to class Tuesday, according to New Haven spokesman John Mattos, down from about 20 percent Monday.<\/p>\n

At James Logan High School \u2014 which typically serves about 3,600 students \u2014 the drop-off was steep, with roughly 125 students attending Tuesday, or 400 fewer than Monday, Mattos said.<\/p>\n

Some students who joined hundreds of New Haven Teachers Association members on picket lines said school without teachers and traditional lesson plans is a waste of time.\u00a0\u00a0 www.eastbaytimes.com\/2019\/05\/21\/new-haven-teachers-keep-striking-while-students-keep-away-from-classes\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018If I disappear\u2019: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns over labor activism<\/h1>\n

The video opens with the 21-year-old sociology student facing the camera. His voice quivers as he recounts his interrogation \u2014 his humiliation \u2014 for days at the hands of Beijing police.<\/p>\n

The officials pressured him to quit labor activism and drop out of Peking University, he says. They slapped him until blood streamed from his nose. They jammed headphones into his ears and played hours of propaganda at full volume.<\/p>\n

On the last day, he alleges, they had him bend over a table naked and spread his buttocks, joking darkly that they would teach him how to insert a listening device.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis all happened on campus,\u201d Qiu Zhanxuan seethes in the video he recorded in February after he said the police released him, temporarily, after a four-day ordeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I disappear,\u201d he adds, \u201cit\u2019ll be because of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Qiu disappeared April 29.<\/p>\n

State security\u00a0agents seized him that day from Beijing\u2019s outskirts, his classmates say. Qiu\u2019s offense? He was the leader of the Marxist student association at the elite Peking University, a communist of conscience who defied the Communist Party of China.<\/p>\n

Over the past eight months, China\u2019s ruling party \u00a0has gone to extraordinary lengths to shut down the small club of students at the country\u2019s top university. Peking University\u2019s young Marxists drew the government\u2019s ire after they campaigned for workers\u2019 rights and openly criticized social inequality and corruption in China.\u00a0\u00a0 www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/if-i-disappear-chinese-students-make-farewell-messages-amid-crackdowns-over-labor-activism-\/2019\/05\/25\/6fc949c0-727d-11e9-9331-30bc5836f48e_story.html?utm_term=.015389864ebd<\/a><\/p>\n

www.facebook.com\/fightingfascismwithfunny\/videos\/2167259283395435\/?t=30<\/a><\/p>\n

About 900 Nashville school teachers out again Monday amid protests over funding, pay<\/h1>\n

Just over 900\u00a0Metro Nashville Public Schools teachers called out on Monday morning again amid protests over funding and pay.<\/p>\n

“These numbers represent a variety of\u00a0reasons,\u00a0including\u00a0personal illness, family illness, professional leave, personal leave and bereavement,” schools spokeswoman Dawn Rutledge said.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Amanda Kail, president-elect for the Metropolitan Nashville Education Association, has said the teacher absences are meant as a protest against Nashville Mayor David\u00a0Briley’s proposed budget.<\/p>\n

The number of teachers out, Rutledge said, marked 913 as of noon.<\/p>\n

More: <\/strong>Nashville teachers protest funding, pay: What parents should know about MNPS sick out<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Rutledge did not provide a full list of the schools with absent teachers but did say McGavock High School had 87\u00a0teachers out.\u00a0 www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/2019\/05\/06\/nashville-schools-teachers-mnps-sick-out\/1115927001\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Seeing the Corruption on De La Torre’s Wall, 6 executives resign or announce retirement at SDSU as leadership turnover continues<\/h1>\n

Business school dean Lance Nail, who took the job less than two years ago, among those pursuing other opportunities<\/h2>\n
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Six San Diego State University executives have announced that they are leaving for other schools, jobs or retiring, including a dean who says she grew tired of the turnover and leadership issues the school has experienced over the past two years.<\/p>\n

All of the changes have occurred in the past six months, and mark a high degree of turnover during Adela de la Torre\u2019s first year as president.<\/p>\n

The departures include two deans, an acting associate dean, the director of the School of Accountancy, the university\u2019s chief fundraiser, and SDSU\u2019s enrollment director.<\/p>\n

It is not clear whether de la Torre asked one or more people to leave, or whether the executives sought change.<\/p>\n

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De la Torre addressed the matter in broad terms, telling the Union-Tribune Wednesday, \u201cIn support of recent decisions to either move into a well-deserved retirement, after many years of service to SDSU, or to seize new opportunities that will benefit personal career goals, we are all committed to ensuring a smooth transition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI congratulate my fellow colleagues on this new chapter and thank them for their impressive contributions to our campus community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wave of departures is stirring concern among the faculty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am bewildered at the number of deans leaving SDSU,\u201d said Peter Herman, a veteran literature professor. \u201cIt suggests that there\u2019s chaos at the top of the university.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The first to leave was Mary Ruth Carleton, who stepped down as the school\u2019s chief fundraiser in December, in a change that caught some people by surprise. She led the university\u2019s first major fundraising campaign, an effort that raised a record $800 million over a 10-year period ending in 2017.\u00a0 www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/education\/story\/2019-05-22\/3-deans-leaving-san-diego-state-university-raising-questions-about-schools-leadership<\/a><\/p>\n

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America\u2019s educational system is an \u2018aristocracy posing as a meritocracy\u2019<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Education is often sold as a great equalizer, but new research suggests it\u2019s actually reinforcing inequality.<\/p>\n

Roughly 30% of low-income kindergartners with high test scores wind up getting a college education and a decent-paying entry-level job, according to a study released Wednesday by Georgetown University\u2019s Center on Education and the Workforce. On the other hand, kindergartners who come from families in the highest-income households and have low test scores have a 70% chance of reaching the same education and job level.<\/p>\n

The study\u2019s findings provide insight into a very basic question, according to Anthony Carnevale, the director of the Georgetown center and one of the authors of the report. Does our educational system work to propel the people with the most talent to the best jobs?<\/p>\n

The answer, according to Carnevale: \u201cIt\u2019s not a meritocracy, it is more and more an aristocracy posing as a meritocracy.\u201d\u00a0 www.marketwatch.com\/story\/americas-educational-system-is-an-aristocracy-posing-as-a-meritocracy-2019-05-15?fbclid=IwAR2x4r2DOk2nhwnEDFlOTyGoFVz_Xe8Tw-VAIs271_Fg6iZcVsZ4ozspXlQ<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Morehouse Gift, in Context: An Average Black Graduate Has $7,400 More in Debt Than White Peers <\/span><\/h1>\n