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THE COMMONWEAL: A PRINCIPLE FOR ALL

On April 12, 2021   /   educational inequity, NotYourFathersSchool  

THIS POST ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN JULY 2020 ON THE INDEPENDENT CURRICULUM BLOG. (Content lost in a hosting transfer, alas.) In this moment the world is clamoring for independent schools to be held, and to hold themselves, accountable to a higher standard, and we must examine ourselves and […]

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Umbridging: Outsourcing and the Threat to the Heart of Schools

On March 10, 2014   /   educational inequity, Global Online Academy, Harry Potter, Khan Academy, MOOCs, new SAT, NotYourFathersSchool, Online School for Girls, outsourcing, Powerful Learning Practice, umbridge  

The other day I wrote here about outsourcing, the tendency in schools these days to hand over responsibility for a myriad of institutional tasks to third-party vendors whose efficiencies and expertise ostensibly make it easier, and maybe cheaper, for schools to let someone else do it. In […]

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TRADITIONAL LANDS

I here affirm that the offices from which I work are situated on lands that have a very long and continuing history as a locus of residence, livelihood, traditional expression, and exchange by the Massachusett, Wampanoag, Abenaki, Mohawk, Wabanaki, Hohokam, O’odam, Salt River Pima, and Maricopa people. The servers for this website are situated on Ute and Goshute land. We make this acknowledgment to remind ourselves, our educational partners, and our friends of our shared obligation to acknowledge and work toward righting the inequities and injustices that have alienated indigenous peoples from the full occupation and utilization of these spaces.