educationalchemy

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all judgments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior ...

https://educationalchemy.com/2021/11/14/the-howlers-of-history-and-how-we-must-reclaim-the-narrative/

Whiteness and Anti-masking It’s not surprising that the population who refuse to accept the full scope of Covid19, the anti-masker group, intersect with the same population who own and deny the...

https://educationalchemy.com/2020/08/26/anti-masking-the-subtext-of-white-privilege-and-addictive-thinking/

I recently had the privilege of reading Dufresne’s powerful illustrated history of educational and institutional racism in the United States. Dufresne blends written narrative (which includes b...

https://educationalchemy.com/2018/06/30/book-review-the-history-of-institutional-racism-in-u-s-public-schools-2018-garn-press-by-susan-dufresne/

Wherever I go, I discover how few people have heard the term “social impact bonds” and for those who have, they usually have received little more than the glossy sales pitch offered by social...

https://educationalchemy.com/2018/06/07/social-impact-bonds-readings/

(China is monitoring the brain activity of employees in its state-run firms. The technology works by placing wireless sensors in workers’ hats that when combined with AI can spot workplace anxi...

https://educationalchemy.com/2018/05/16/are-you-sure-it-wont-happen-here/

http://classroomsnotcomputers.org/ Technology is replacing teachers, Classrooms and students are becoming pipelines of data collection for the profit of private corporate interests. As we saw w...

https://educationalchemy.com/2018/05/14/a-new-campaign/

(Image courtesy of Alison McDowell) Dear County Council Members, I am writing on behalf of concerned BCPS parents regarding the newest rounds of BCPS policy involving STAT (specially the leasing ...

https://educationalchemy.com/2018/03/11/letter-for-bcps-parents-my-child-is-not-a-pipeline/

(picture courtesy of Alison McDowell) Social Impact Bonds and Baltimore What is a SIB? In an era of tight public budgets, private and philanthropic organizations increasingly are underwriting pub...

https://educationalchemy.com/2018/02/24/baltimores-promise-the-promise-of-privatization/

I was appalled when an educator/activist/author friend of mine, shared with me over coffee, that University of Maryland College Park, in partnership with real estate mogul Edward St John, contrac...

https://educationalchemy.com/2017/12/02/a-new-school-to-prison-pipeline-that-might-surprise-you/

A BRIEF PAUSE IN BETWEEN CHAPTERS OF THE FICTIONAL STORY (INTERREGNUM MILE) TO CONSIDER THE NOT-SO-FICTIONAL VERSION OF THAT SAME REALITY. In the last few years a lot of debate has been had over ...

https://educationalchemy.com/2017/11/12/biocapitalism-corporate-colonialism-and-education-policy/