{"id":973,"date":"2010-10-01T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T23:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=973"},"modified":"2010-10-01T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T03:22:29","slug":"rouge-forum-update-vote-with-your-feet-vote-in-the-street-october-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-update-vote-with-your-feet-vote-in-the-street-october-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Update: Vote With Your Feet! Vote in the Street! October 7th!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Networking vs Organizing by Malcolm Gladwell <\/strong>: By the following Monday, sit-ins had spread to Winston-Salem, twenty-five miles away, and Durham, fifty miles away. The day after that, students at Fayetteville State Teachers College and at Johnson C. Smith College, in Charlotte, joined in, followed on Wednesday by students at St. Augustine\u2019s College and Shaw University, in Raleigh. On Thursday and Friday, the protest crossed state lines, surfacing in Hampton and Portsmouth, Virginia, in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and in Chattanooga, Tennessee. By the end of the month, there were sit-ins throughout the South, as far west as Texas. \u201cI asked every student I met what the first day of the sitdowns had been like on his campus,\u201d the political theorist Michael Walzer wrote in Dissent. \u201cThe answer was always the same: \u2018It was like a fever. Everyone wanted to go.\u2019 \u201d Some seventy thousand students eventually took part. Thousands were arrested and untold thousands more radicalized. These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade\u2014and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter…www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/10\/04\/101004fa_fact_gladwell<\/a><\/p>\n

www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ljp_gk3VRkQ<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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\n<\/a>WHY HAVE SCHOOL?<\/strong> We can fight to rescue education from the ruling classes. Everything negative is in place for a revolutionary transformation of society (distrust of leaders, collapse of moral suasion from the top down, financial crises, lost wars, massive unemployment, booming inequality, imprisonment of only the poor, growing reliance on force to rule, eradication of civil liberties, corruption and gridlock of government at every level, etc.) What is missing is the passion, generalization, organization, and guiding ethic to make that change. Time is short. www.counterpunch.org\/gibson09072010.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Conference Notice: International Conference on Critical Education (Athens<\/strong>, Greece): 12-16 July 2011,
\nOrganized by the journals:
\nJOURNAL OF CRITICAL POLICY EDUCATIONAL STUDIES (UK) www.jceps.com\/<\/a>
\nCULTURAL LOGIC (USA\/CANADA) clogic.eserver.org\/<\/a>
\nKRITIKI (GREECE) www.hpdst.gr\/book\/export\/html\/48<\/a>
\nRADICAL NOTES (INDIA) radicalnotes.com\/journal\/category\/india\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Schmidt Family Lucks Out\u2013the Perfect Enemy (arrogant, immature, mean-spirited, utterly predictable, bratty, loser Obamagogueite Emanuel) Returns to their Lair: <\/strong>President Obama is scheduled to give his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, a formal send-off from Washington on Friday, as Mr. Emanuel officially announces his departure from the West Wing to run for mayor of Chicago, www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/01\/us\/politics\/01obama.html?_r=1&hp<\/a><\/p>\n

NBC, Duncan, and Weingarten\u2013Praise for the Tyrant: Broad\u2019s Bob Bobb: <\/strong>“In Detroit Public Schools we have new teacher contracts and a new teacher evaluation system put in place,” Bobb said “We have to have an effective way in which we can evaluate teachers, not just teachers, but we have to look at the entire system.” Duncan noted that Detroit’s schools have been a “disgrace” for “far too long.” He praised Bobb’s reforms. “The children are desperately underserved,” he said. “Detroit is going in a better direction thanks to Robert Bobb.” Bobb’s efforts have aided the district in securing $500.5 million bond issue to build and modernize 18 schools. Reforms, including expanded time for reading and mathematics, tutors for pre-kindergarteners, advanced placement classes at each high school and new safety and security features, are in place this fall throughout the district’s 142 schools. www.detnews.com\/article\/20100926\/SCHOOLS\/9260316\/Bobb-defends-Detroit-school-district-reforms-on–Meet-the-Press-<\/a><\/p>\n

Education Journalism is Demagoguery:<\/strong> NBC News president Steve Capus said that his network\u2019s Education Nation summit this week — a multi-day affair that included interviews with President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan — would be a fair, serious look at public education today. It wasn\u2019t even close. voices.washingtonpost.com\/answer-sheet\/school-turnaroundsreform\/the-wrong-way-to-cover-school.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Total Shocker! San Diego Runs a Racist School System:<\/strong> For San Diego Unified, gaps in enrollment and success in college-prep classes are found mostly along lines of ethnicity. While 59 percent of white students and 58 percent of students of Asian background successfully meet college-entrance standards, only 31 percent of black students and 33 percent of Latino students have the same success. www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/sep\/29\/sd-unified-struggles-college-standards\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Good Plan: Privatize the Libraries and Make the Addicted Users Pay<\/strong>: A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country\u2019s fifth-largest library system….And the volunteers are still showing up \u2014 even if their assistance is now aiding a private company. \u201cWe volunteer more than ever now,\u201d Mr. Ceragioli said. www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/27\/business\/27libraries.html?_r=1&hp<\/a><\/p>\n

Nine Years Ago, Deregulating Libraries was a Joke<\/strong>: We need to let the free market standardize the library systems through the invisible hand of peoples\u2019 choices. We need to let the free market also set firm accountability measures for the bibliocrats so they can no longer work their one-worldly magic behind the backs of Americans. www.richgibson.com\/LibraryDereg.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

No Public Schools For Obamagogue Babies (Get out the Vote, Liberals!):<\/strong> Obama was asked by a woman in a television audience whether a public school in his home city could measure up to the standards of his children’s private school. “I’ll be blunt with you: The answer is no right now,” the president replied. The D.C. public schools, he said “are struggling.”
\nTuition at Sidwell is more than $31,000 a year, according to the school’s Web site. Some of Obama’s critics say it is hypocritical of him to spend that kind of money on private school while allowing a federal voucher program in the District to lapse .
\nwww.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/27\/AR2010092701766.html?hpid=topnews<\/a><\/p>\n

Bloomberg (NYC) Attacks Tenure: <\/strong>Mayor Bloomberg launched a nationally televised attack on cushy job protections for teachers yesterday — vowing to upend tenure by requiring teachers to improve student performance for two straight years in order to earn it. His bold move to tackle a staple of the school system comes as the documentary “Waiting for ‘Superman’ ” is bolstering the call to reform union sacred cows such as teacher tenure and seniority job protections. www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/national\/free_ride_over_teachers_mayor_YLg2vMDfijyLrxGUdQDrII<\/a><\/p>\n

Christie (next door in NJ) Boosts Merit Pay<\/strong>: Instead, the Republican governor wants to ban using seniority alone to determine teacher pay and restrict the bumps for additional degrees to areas such as math and science, where “graduate degrees have proven to be effective markers of improved teacher performance,” according to a press release from the governor. www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/09\/gov_christie_advocates_merit_p.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Wilson, Exec Boss of NEA on Waiting For Superman:<\/strong> “I think the films are a blip. They will come and go, but the union will still be there, our members will still be in these schools,” he said. “We don’t see any advantage of going to war with documentarians.” www.sacbee.com\/2010\/09\/24\/3052921\/documentary-films-ratchet-up-pressure.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Detroit Schools Run Bribes to Get Kiddie $s:<\/strong> Detroit Public Schools will offer $20,000 in Target gift cards — including five $1,000 prizes — to DPS parents who bring their children for a full day on Count Day. Breakfast and lunch also will be served to every DPS student at no charge.<\/p>\n

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\nGropenFuhrer Vetoes University Funding Transparency Bill<\/strong>: Subsidiary organizations linked to California’s public colleges and universities will remain free from increased scrutiny.
\nGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday vetoed a bill requiring university foundations and auxiliary associations to comply with the California Public Records Act.
\nA loophole in the law previously has allowed the nonprofits to bypass the disclosure requirements that apply to higher education institutions. www.fresnobee.com\/2010\/09\/30\/2100080\/governor-vetoes-disclosure-bill.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Perpetual War<\/span><\/strong>
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