For the record, allusions to the Prussian model of education are really a shorthand for the many shortcomings imposed on public education, and risk a lot of ahistorical easythink when approaching those problems. Audrey Waters argues in The Invented History[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Like a lot of illustrations I do for education sociologist Mark Garrison, this one draws on my political cartooning skills, as much as my caricature and illustration skills. The focus of Mark’s article, Infaming the Public, Part IV: Public Self-Consciousness[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As education becomes more and more privatized, the more the intellectual property concerns of education services companies become a problem for a publicly accountable system of education. Mark Garrison explores the consequences of the “user agreements” public school teachers must sign[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
These two illustrations accompany the third installment of Mark Garrison’s critique of the Common Core Standards and the politics of education reform. Such strange times we live in, when public education is under attack.